Section 50-B: Penalty for licensed vendor etc.

1the Jammu and Kashmir Excise Act, Samvat 1958 (1901 A.d.)Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 9 of 1901

[50-B. Penalty for licensed vendor etc.––If any licensed vendor or any person in his employ or acting on his behalf ––

(a) sells or delivers any liquor or intoxicating drug to any person apparently under the age of twenty-one years ; or

(b) employees or permits to be employed on any part of his licensed premises any man under the age of twenty-one years, or any woman ; or

(d) permits drunkenness, intoxication, disorderly conduct or gaming on the licensed premises of such licensed vendor ; or

(e) permits any person whom he knows or has reason to believe to have been convicted of any non-bailable offence under this Act to frequent his licensed premises whether for the purposes of crime or not,

he shall, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable, be punishable with a fine which may extend to [two thousand rupees but shall not be less than one thousand rupees].

When any licensed vendor or any person in his employ or acting on his behalf is charged with permitting drunkenness or intoxication on the licensed premises of such vendor, and it is proved that any person was drunk or intoxicated on such premises, it shall lie on the person charged to prove that the licensed vendor or the person employed by him or acting on his behalf took all reasonable steps for preventing drunkenness or intoxication on such premises.]

Where this provision sits

Act	1the Jammu and Kashmir Excise Act, Samvat 1958 (1901 A.d.)
Section	50-B
Marginal note	Penalty for licensed vendor etc.
Jurisdiction	Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

inserted, Act XXXIX of 1956. . Section 50-B inserted by Act XXXIX of 1956.
substituted, Act VII of 2001. . Substituted for “five hundred rupees” by Act VII of 2001, s. 6.

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