Assam Opium Smoking Act, 1927

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    "title": "Assam Opium Smoking Act, 1927",
    "short_title": "Assam Opium Smoking Act, 1927",
    "act_number": "Assam Act 3 of 1927",
    "act_year": 1927,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Opium Smoking Act, 1927",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and extent.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Opium\" includes 'prepared opium' which means chandu, madak, opium dross or the scrappings from the opium pipe and every other preparation or admixture of opium which may be used for smoking ;\n(b) \"Place\" includes a building, house, enclosure, shop, booth, tent, vessel, raft and vehicle and any part thereof;\n(c) \"Collector\" means the Chief Officer-in-charge of the revenue administration of district, and includes any officer whom the Government may, by notification, declare or appoint to be a Collector for the purposes of this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Penalty for smoking opium.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Penalty for smoking opium in company.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Opium smoking assembly.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Member of opium smoking assembly.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Presumption raised by presence of opium and opium smoking apparatus.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Penalty for being member of opium smoking assembly.",
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            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Penalty for opening, keeping or having charge of place used for such assembly.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Penalty for dealing in opium dross.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Enhancement of punishment on second conviction.",
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            "content": "",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Search warrants and power to search.",
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            "content": "(a) to enter such place by day or night with any person whose assistance such officer may consider necessary ;\n(b) to search all parts of such place in which such officer has reason to believe that any opium or any apparatus for the preparation of opium or for opium smoking is concealed and all or any person whom he may find in such place ;\n(c) to arrest any person found in such place whom he has reason to believe to be guilty of an offence under this Act;\n(d) to seize all opium and apparatus for opium smoking or for the preparation of opium which may be found is such place.",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Application of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to warrants and searches.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Report to be made in case of arrest or seizure.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Bail and security.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Aid to Excise Officer.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Confiscation and destruction of opium and things seized.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Cognizance of offence.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Bar of certain suits.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Limitation of suits and prosecution.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Tender of pardon to accused person turning approver.",
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            "content": "(b) Such accused person shall, on accepting the tender, be a competent witness in the case and shall not be liable to punishment so long as the pardon remains in force.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) regulate the disposal of things confiscated under this Act;\n(b) prescribe and regulate the payment of rewards to officers and informers.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass224]",
        "Act Number": "Assam Act 3 of 1927",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1927",
        "Short Title": "Assam Opium Smoking Act, 1927",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}