In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(1) "authorization" means an authorization granted under section 45 for the use of liquor for sacramental purposes;
(2) "to bottle" with its various grammatical variations, means to transfer any article from a cask or other vessel to a bottle, jar, flask, pot or similar receptacle for the purpose of sale, whether any process of manufacture be employed or not; bottling includes re-bottling;
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[(4) "Collector" includes an officer appointed by the State Government to exercise all or any of the powers and to perform all or any of the duties or functions of a Collector under this Act&345659;
(7) "Common drinking house" means a place where the drinking of liquor or consumption of any intoxicating drug is allowed for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using, keeping or having the care of management or control of such place whether by way of charge for the use of the place or for drinking facilities provided, or otherwise howsoever and includes the premises of a club or any other place which is habitually used for the purpose of drinking liquor or consuming any intoxicating drug by more than one person without a licence granted under this Act&59;
[(9) "cultivation" means raising a plant from seed and includes the tending or protecting of a plant during its growth&59;
[(10a) "denatured spirituous preparation" means any preparation made with denatured spirit[or denatured alcohol] and includes lacquers, French Polish and varnish prepared out of such spirit or alcohol&959;
(13) "excisable article" means-
(a) any alcoholic liquor for human consumption,
(b) an intoxicating drug [or hemp],
(c) opium,
[(d) other narcotic drugs and narcotics which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an excisable article]&1259;
(15) "excise revenue" means revenue derived or derivable from any duty, fee, tax, fine (other than a fine imposed by a court of law) or confiscation or forfeiture imposed or ordered under the provisions of this Act, or of any other law for the time being in force relating to intoxicants&131459;
(17) "foreign liquor" [means all liquor produced or manufactured outside India ]:
Provided that the [State ] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that any specified description of country liquor shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be foreign liquor &1759;]
(18) "hemp" means any variety of the Indian hemp plant from which intoxicating drugs can be produced;
(19) "hotel licence" means a licence granted under section 35;
[(19a) "household" means a group of persons residing and messing jointly as members of one domestic unit, but does not include their servants; ]
(20) "import" (except in section 147) means to bring into the [State ] otherwise than across a customs forntier * * * *
(21) "interim permit" means a permit granted under section 47;
(22) "intoxicant" means any liquor, intoxicating drug, opium or any other substance, which the [State ] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an intoxicant;
(23) "intoxicating drugs" means-
(a) the leaves, small stalks and flowering or fruiting tops of the Indian hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa L.) including all forms known as bhang, sidhi or ganja&59;
(c) any mixture, with or without natural materials of any of the above forms of intoxicating drug, or any drink perpared therefrom; *
[(d) any other intoxicating or narcotic drug or substance together with every preparation or admixture of the same which the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an intoxicating drug for the purposes of the Act, such drug, substance, preparation or admixture, not being opium, coca leaf or a manufactured drug as defined in section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930]&242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253Bombay Police Act, 1951(Bom. XXII of 1951), includes a reference to any law corresponding to those Acts, respectively, in force in any part of the State.