Executive Instructions Relating to Opium

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    "title": "Executive Instructions Relating to Opium",
    "short_title": "Executive Instructions Relating to Opium",
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    "description": "Executive Instructions Relating to Opium",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Period of licences and permits.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Register of licences.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Issue of duplicate copy in the event of loss of original licence or permit.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Return of time expired, cancelled or abandoned licence or permit.",
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            "content": "II. - Supply and storage of opium",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Issue of opium.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Production of duplicate licence or permit on purchase of opium from treasury.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Procedure for the passing of challan and issue of opium from treasury.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Issue of opium to licensee or permit holder or their authorised agents.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Indent for opium.",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Sub-divisional requirements how to be shown.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Indents how to be regulated.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Chests to be examined on arrival.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Certificate of examining officer.",
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            "content": "(a) the number of cakes in the chest, and\n(b) the contents of each paper cover.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Weighment on change of charge in transit.",
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        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Custody of opium and its issue in cakes of one seer or half seer.",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Opium to issue according to date of receipt.",
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        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Examination of chests to guard against white ants.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Report of damage by white-ants or of theft.",
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        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Complaints regarding adulterated opium.",
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            "content": "(1) the number and distinguishing marks on the chest from which the opium was taken out;\n(2) the invoice number and date of consignment of the chest.",
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        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Accounts of daily transactions of opium.",
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        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Office register of issue of opium to each shop.",
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            "content": "III. - Opium cases, reports, etc.",
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        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Contraband opium to remain in custody of court police.",
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        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Communication of details of opium-smuggling cases to Inspector-General of Police and Excise Commissioner-Co-operation between Officers of Police and Excise Departments.",
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        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Inclusion of resumes of cases in Excise administration report.",
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        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Report in individual important cases.",
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        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Report to Government of India about important cases of smuggling into or out of India.",
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            "content": "(i) When information (e.g., as to the movements or proceedings of traffickers) might be useful for the purpose of stopping some contraband transaction which is in the course of being carried out; and\n(ii) When a seizure is made and there is anything to show that a person or firm in a foreign country is implicated, but it is not considered possible to stop the transaction by passing the information on to the other country.",
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        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Furnishing copy of report of opium cases to Opium Agent, Ghazipur.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Sample of opium seized to be sent to Ghazipur Opium Agent.",
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        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Confiscated opium how to disposed of.",
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            "content": "(b) All Deputy Commissioners (except Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup) and the Political Officers of Nadiya, Balipara and Tirap Frontier Tracts should send all contraband opium of their respective districts to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup, in one lot on the 1st April and the 1st October each year. The Sub-divisional Officers should send the confiscated opium of their respective sub-divisions direct to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup,in the same manner, a report being sent to the Deputy Commissioner concerned. The entries of the quantity of contraband opium in the court Malkhana should be verified with those in the Excise office. Contraband opium should be re-weighed in the presence of a Magistrate whom the Deputy Commissioner or the Sub-divisional Officer or the Political Officer may depute before despatch to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup. All consignments should be sent by registered parcel to the Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup. Should the quantity be too large for tire parcel post, any other method of transmission which appears proper to the Deputy Commissioner or the Sub-Divisional Officer or the Political Officer, may be adopted.\nIV. - Miscellaneous",
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        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Rewards.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Indent for forms to be made to Government.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Changes in Opium and Excise Policy to be reported to Government of India.",
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        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Possession of opium by travellers and pilgrims.",
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            "content": "(1) They should obey the opium Rules 3 and 4.\n(2) If any such person is found in possession of any quantity of opium on arrival in Assam, he will be liable to prosecution under the Opium Act unless he has previously obtained a pass from the Deputy Commissioner or the Political Officer of the district or the area where he would be coming.\n(3) Application for such a pass should be accompanied by a certificate from the Collector of the district or from the Sub-divisional Officer of the sub-division where he may be residing before coming to Assam to the effect that the applicant is a habitual opium eater.\n(4) In no case the limit of possession will be allowed to exceed the quantity mentioned in opium Rule 3.",
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        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Procedure regarding sale of opium through official vendors.",
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            "content": "(1) The Medical Officers-in-charge of the hospital should forward to the Comptroller, Assam, in the form of a plus and minus memo, a monthly statement showing the opening balance, receipt and issue of opium in their possession together with a certificate in the following form :\n\"I certify that the balance of opium in store on..........(the blank being the last day of the month to which the plus and minus memo relates) is......... maunds....... seers....... tolas.\"\n(2) The quantity of opium issued to the Medical Officers from the treasuries should be shown as separate items in the treasury plus and minus memos, supported by the receipts of the Medical Officers, in order that the corresponding receipts may be traced in the plus and minus memos, to be submitted by the latter.\n(3) The sale proceeds of opium credited into the treasuries by each Medical Officer should be shown by the Treasury Officers as a separate item in the Receipt Schedule.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Certain instructions under Act to apply to opium administration.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass228]",
        "Act Number": "",
        "Enactment Date": "",
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        "Short Title": "Executive Instructions Relating to Opium",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}