(1) No licence, permit or pass granted under this Act shall be deemed to be invalid by reason merely of any technical defect, irregularity or omission in the license or in any proceedings taken prior to the grant thereof.
(2) The decision of the Excise Commissioner as to what is a technical defect, irregularity or omission shall be final.
No claim in consequence of refusal to renew a license etc.
43. No person to whom a licence, permit or pass may have been granted, shall be entitled to claim any renewal thereof and no claim shall lie for damages or otherwise in consequence of any refusal to renew a license permit or pass on the expiry of the period for which it remains in force.
Surrender of licence. 44. (1) No holder of a licence granted under this Act to sell any intoxicant shall surrender his licence except on the expiration of one month’s notice in writing given by him to be Collector of his intention to surrender the same and on payment of the fee payable for the licensee for the whole period for which it would have been current but for the surrender:
Provided that, if the Collector is satisfied that there is sufficient reason for surrendering the license, he may remit to the holder thereof the sum so payable on surrender or any portion thereof.
(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply in the case of any licence granted under Section 27(2).
Explanation :- The words ‘holder of a Licence’ as used in this Section include a person whose tender bid for a licence has been accepted, although he may not actually have received to licence.
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CHAPTER VII POWER AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS, Etc.
Power to enter and inspect places of manufacture.. and sale.
45. Any excise officer not below such rank, as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi may prescribe, may-
(a) enter and inspect, at any time by day or by night any place in which any licenced manufacturer carries on the manufacture of or stores any (intoxicant) ;
(b) enter and inspect at any time within the hours during which sale is permitted, and at any other time during which the same may be open, any place in which any intoxicant is kept for sale by any person holding a licence under this Act;
(c) examine accounts and registers, test measures or weigh any material, stills, utensils, implements, apparatus or intoxicant found in that place;
(d) seize any accounts, registers, measures, weights or testing instruments which he has reason to believe to be false.
Powers to excise officers to investigate offences punishable under this Act.