Section 9: Prohibition of storage and sale and distribution of cigarettes, etc

The Goa Prohibition of Smoking and Spitting Act, 1997State Act of Goa · Act 5 of 1999

No person shall himself or by any person on his behalf, store, sell or distribute cigarettes, beedies, chewing tobacco, gul (tobacco), tobacco paste, supari with tobacco, pan-masala, zarda, snuff, ghutka or any other such smoking substance or substances containing tobacco within an area of 100 metres around place of worship or any college, school or other educational institutions.

1[Provided that the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the tobacco products and words/localities within the limits of municipal councils, for which, the aforesaid prohibition shall not apply.].

Where this provision sits

Act	The Goa Prohibition of Smoking and Spitting Act, 1997
Section	9
Marginal note	Prohibition of storage and sale and distribution of cigarettes, etc
Jurisdiction	State of Goa
Status	In force as published by the source

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