Assam Opium Prohibition Act, 1947

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    "title": "Assam Opium Prohibition Act, 1947",
    "short_title": "Assam Opium Prohibition Act, 1947",
    "act_number": "Assam Act 23 of 1947",
    "act_year": 1947,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Opium Prohibition Act, 1947",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"buy\" with all its grammatical variations, means any receipt for price paid in cash or kind, also any receipt by gift, loan or otherwise ;\n(b) \"State Prohibition Council\" means the body of non- official residents of the State as may be constituted by State Government by the notification in the official Gazette ;\n(c) \"excise opium\" means opium issued from a Government Treasury in the State;\n(d) \"export\" means to take out of the State otherwise than across customs frontiers;\n(e) \"import\" means to bring into the State otherwise than across customs frontiers;\n(f) \"opium\" means and includes opium as defined in Section 3 of the Opium Act, 1878 (Act 1 of 1878), and in clause, (a) of Section 2 of the Assam Opium Smoking Act, 1927 (Assam Act 3 of 1927), and also any other substance or preparation containing morphine in any proportion whatsoever;\n(g) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules framed under this Act;\n(h) \"Prohibition Officer\" means a person appointed under Section 31 ;\n(i) \"State\" means the State of Assam ;\n(j) \"section\" means a section of this Act;\n(k) \"sell\" with all its grammatical variations, means any transfer, including a gift as a loan or otherwise ;\n(l) \"smuggler\" means a person who brings any opium into the State otherwise than across customs frontiers in contravention of the provisions of this Act,or of any other law ; and\n(m) \"transport\" means to take from one place to anther within the State.\nChapter II\nProhibition",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Prohibition.",
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            "content": "(a) import, export, transport, or possess opium ;\n(b) sell or buy opium ;\n(c) consume opium ;\n(d) use or keep any material, utensil, implement or apparatus whatsoever for-\n(i) the manufacture of any opium smoking preparation or any drink containing opium,\n(ii) smoking opium,\n(iii) weighing opium, or\n(iv) preserving opium.\nChapter III\nExemptions",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Exemptions.",
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            "content": "Chapter IV\nOffences and Penalties",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Punishment for contravention.",
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            "content": "(a) imports, exports, transports or possesses opium, or\n(b) sells or buys opium, or\n(c) consumes opium, or\n(d) uses or keeps any material, utensil, implement or apparatus whatsoever for-\n(i) the manufacture of any opium smoking preparations or any drink containing opium,\n(ii) smoking opium shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six years, and with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees,\n(iii) weighing opium, or\n(iv) preserving opium.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Punishment for allowing premises to be used for the commission of an offence.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Security for abstaining from commission of offences.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Attempts.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Abetments.",
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            "content": "Chapter V\nSecurity From Habitual Offenders to Desist From Committing Offences",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Security for desisting from committing offences.",
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            "content": "(a) commits offences under Section 5 or Section 6, or\n(b) protects or harbours smugglers, receivers or sellers of opium, or opium eaters, such Magistrate may, in manner hereinafter provided, require such person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond, with sureties, to desist from committing any offence mentioned in this sub-section for such period, not exceeding three years, as the Magistrate thinks fit to fix.\n(ii) Such inquiry shall be made as nearly as may be practicable according to the procedure prescribed for the trial of warrant cases in the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 (Act 5 of 1898), except that no charge need be framed.\n(iii) If the Magistrate considers that immediate measures are necessary for the prevention of the commission of any offence under this Act, pending the conclusion of the inquiry under clause, (i), he may, for reasons to be recorded, direct the person in respect of whom the order under sub-section (2) has been made, to execute a bond with sureties to desist from committing any offence mentioned in sub-section (1) until the conclusion of the inquiry and may detain him in custody until such bond is executed, or in default of execution, until the inquiry is concluded.\nFirstly, that no person shall be ordered to give surety of a nature different from or for an amount larger than or for a period longer than that specified in the order made under sub-section (2) ;\nSecondly, that the amount of such bond shall be fixed with due regard to the circumstances of the case ; and\nThirdly, that when the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made is a minor, the bond shall be executed only by his surety.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Proceedings subsequent to the order to furnish security.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Contents of the bond.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Power to reject security.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Imprisonment in default of security.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nExternment of Habitual Smugglers",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Externment of habitual smugglers.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Procedure of externment.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Punishment of non-compliance.",
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            "content": "(a) fails to comply with such order within the time specified therein, or\n(b) after complying with the said order returns or remains in the area from which he was externed before the expiry of the period stated in the order, he shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.\nChapter VII\nProcedure",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Power to issue warrants.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant.",
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            "content": "(a) enter into any such building, vessel or place ;\n(b) in case of resistance, break open any door an remove any other obstacle to such entry;\n(c) seize such opium, material, utensil, implement or apparatus, and any other article liable to confiscation under Section 29, and any document or other article which may furnish evidence of the commission of the offence ; and\n(d) detain, search and arrest any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed an offence against this Act relating to such opium, material, utensil implement or apparatus :",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Power of seizure and arrest in public places.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) seize, in any public place or in transit, any opium, material, utensil, implement or apparatus in respect of which he has reason to believe an offence punishable under this Act or the rules 'thereunder has been committed, and along within it, any other articles liable to confiscation under Section 29, and any document or other article which may furnish evidence of the commission of the offence ; and\n(b) detain, search and arrest any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed an offence against this Act relating to such opium, material, utensil, implement or apparatus.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Mode of executing warrants and of making searches and arrests.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Obligation to assist.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Report of arrest and seizure.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Disposal of persons arrested and articles seized.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Power to invest Excise Officer.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Jurisdiction to try offences.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Presumption.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Things liable to confiscation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VIII\nProhibition Authorities\n30.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Prohibition Officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "32.\nChapter IX\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Punishment for vexatious entry, search, seizure or arrest, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) without reasonable grounds of suspicion enters or searches, or causes to be entered or searched, any building, vessel or place ; or\n(b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person on the pretence of seizing or searching for any opium or other article liable to be confiscated under Section 29, or of seizing any document or other article to seizure under Section 20 or 21 ; or\n(c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person, or fails to produce, within the time specified in Section 25, the person arrested or the article seized before the proper authority shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.",
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        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Punishment for unlawful release, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) unlawfully releases any person arrested under either of those sections; or\n(b) abets the unlawful escape of such a person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Punishment for malicious information.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Obligation to give information.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Indemnity.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the relation of the Prohibition Officers to the State Prohibition Council;\n(b) The duties to be performed by a Prohibition Committee and its relation to the State Prohibition Council and other Committees ;\n(c) the procedure for disposal of articles confiscated and proceeds thereof ;\n(d) the licensing of a shop or place under sub-section (1) of Section 4 ; and\n(e) any other matter as may, or require to be prescribed.\nApplicability of the Act in the State of Meghalaya :\n\"(i) 'State' means the Autonomous State of Meghalaya\".\nApplicability in Nagaland :",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass226]",
        "Act Number": "Assam Act 23 of 1947",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1947",
        "Short Title": "Assam Opium Prohibition Act, 1947",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}