Bihar Power Alcohol Act, 1948

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    "slug": "bihar-power-alcohol-act-1948",
    "title": "Bihar Power Alcohol Act, 1948",
    "short_title": "Bihar Power Alcohol Act, 1948",
    "act_number": "[Bihar Act 19 of 1948]",
    "act_year": 1948,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Bihar Power Alcohol Act, 1948",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "CHAPTER I",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"molasses\" means the final residual by-product obtained in the manufacture of sugar at a factory as defined in clause (j) of Section 2 of the Bihar Sugar Factories Control Act, 1937 or otherwise;\n(b) \"Petrol\" means dangerous petroleum as defined in clause (b) of Section 2 of the Petroleum Act, 1934;\n(c) \"Petroleum\" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (a) of Section 2 of the Petroleum Act, 1934;\n(d) \"Power alcohol\" means alcohol containing not less than 99.5 per cent by volume of pure ethyl alcohol measured at sixty degree Fahrenheit corresponding to 74.4 overproof strength;\n(e) \"Prescribed\"means prescribed by this Act or Rules made thereunder; and\n(f) \"sale\" include exchange, barter and offering or exposing for sale.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "CHAPTER II",
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            "content": "Production, Mixing and Distribution",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Compulsory admixture of alcohol with petrol.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Use of petrol without admixure with alcohol for motive power prohibited.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Production of alcohol only from molasses.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Certain conditions of licence.",
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            "content": "(a) the price at which power alcohol shall be sold by the manufacture to the [State] Government; and\n(b) the maximum and the minimum quantities of power alcohol which shall be manufactured by the licensee and the spread over of such production during the period of licence, subject to the power of the Excise Commissioner to alter such quantity in accordance with the Rules made in this behalf.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Alcohol to be denatured.",
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            "sort_order": 8
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. State Government sole purchaser of alcohol.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Sale of alcohol prohibited except under licence.",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Licence to sell petrol.",
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            "content": "(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 3, the [State] Government may authorise any officer, not below the rank of Collector, to grant a licence to any person to sell petrol without admixture with power alcohol for use in any aircraft other than aircraft used by [the Indian] naval, military or air forces, or for such purposes other than that of affording motive power for any motor vehicle as may be notified by the [State] Government.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Collector's power when supply fails.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Licence for mixing alcohol with petrol and petroleum.",
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        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "CHAPTER III",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER III",
            "content": "Administrations, Penalties and Supplemental Provisions",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Excise Commissioner to be the controlling authority.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Entry and search.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Inspection and stamping etc.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "16. Penalty for offence against Section 3,7,8,9,10 and 12.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "17. Penalty for offence against Section 4.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Jurisdiction.",
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            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Confiscation.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Offence to be bailable.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Application of Sections 77, 78 and 81 of B. and O. Act 2 of 1915.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Protection of persons acting in good faith.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Recovery of dues.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Power to make Rules.",
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            "content": "(a) prescribe specification and tests in respect of the purity of power alcohol intended for admixture with petrol in order to ensure its suitability for use in motor vehicles;\n(b) regulate the purchase of power alcohol under Section 8 by the [State] Government and the fixation of price for the same:\n(c) regulate the sale of power alcohol by the [State] Government for mixing with petrol or petroleum or for providing motive power for any motor vehicle and the fixation of price for the same;\n(d) prescribe conditions in respect of the transport and storage of power alcohol intended for admixture with petrol and for the manner in which the admixture is to be effected;\n(e) provide for the conditions under which, the forms in which and the period for which, licences under this Act may be granted and the circumstances in which such licences may be suspended, cancelled or refused for renewal;\n(f) provide for the specification of petrol, petroleum and denaturants which may be mixed with power alcohol;\n(g) prescribe methods of denaturation of power alcohol destined for admixture with petrol or petroleum or for providing motive power for any motor vehicle;\n(h) provide for testing and certification of denaturants, power alcohol and mixture of petrol or petroleum with power alcohol, the establishment of a laboratory or laboratories for testing power alcohol, denaturants or such mixture and the fees that may be charged for the same;\n(i) provide for the orders, other than orders passed in any judicial proceeding, passed under this Act from which, the authority to which and the period within which, an appeal or revision shall lie and the powers of such authority with respect to such appeals and revisions;\n(j) prescribe the particulars and forms of returns to be submitted, and the records and books to be maintained by licence-holders under this Act, the manner which they are to be verified and the time when and the authority to whom returns are to be submitted;\n(k) prescribe the powers and duties to be exercised or performed by officers of the excise Department and of any other Department authorised in this behalf while acting under this Act;\n(l) regulate the price within which the admixture of petrol and power alcohol shall be sold;\n(m) provide for the disposal of any article which has been seized or confiscated under this Act;\n(n) regulate the taking of samples and provide for the cases in which payment shall be made for the value of sample taken and the mode of such payments;\n(o) provide for the procedure to be adopted when there is a difference of opinion as regards the quality of alcohol, petroleum, denaturant or mixture of petrol or petroleum with power alcohol between an officer of the Excise Department or of any other Department authorised in this behalf and the manufacturer of power alcohol destined for admixture with petrol or petroleum for providing motive power for any motor vehicle, or any licence-holders under this Act;\n(p) prescribe the measures, weights and instruments to be maintained by the licence-holders at places where the operation of mixing petrol or petroleum with power alcohol is carried on, the procedure to be observed in testing them and the certificate that may be granted when they are found to be correct;\n(q) provide for the giving of information when an accident by explosion or fire attended with loss of human life or serious injury to person or property occurs as a result of the ignition of power alcohol or mixture of petrol and power alcohol; and\n(r) provide for any other matter expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Saving.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Repeal.",
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            "content": "",
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    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 1st February, 2020 [bh637]",
        "Act Number": "[Bihar Act 19 of 1948]",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1948",
        "Short Title": "Bihar Power Alcohol Act, 1948",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}