(1) Except as otherwise provided in sub-sections (2) and (3), no person shall import, export, transport, sell or have in his possession any quantity of molasses.
(2) The Administrator may, by general or special order, authorise any officer to grant licences: for the import, export, sale or possession of molasses.
(3) The Administrator may also authorise any officer to grant permits for the transport of molasses.
8. When two or more persons agree—
(a) to commit or cause to be committed any offence under subsection (1) of section 3 or under section 5; or
(b) to evade or nullify the provisions of this Regulation in any region where it is in force, each of such persons shall, notwithstanding that no act except the agreement was done by any of the parties thereto in pursuance thereof or that the agreement was made or the operations thereunder took place in a region where this Regulation is not in force, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
9. Any officer or person exercising powers under this Regulation who-^
(a) without reasonable ground of suspicion, enters or searches or causes to be searched, any closed place; or
(b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person on the pretence of seizing or searching for anything liable to confiscation under this Regulation; or
(c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person; or
(d) maliciously and falsely lays information leading to a search, detention or arrest; or Control and regulation Of molasses.
Punishment for vexatioug search or arrest, el1" 124 THS GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART l i - fe) in any other way maliciously exceeds his lawful powers, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
10. Any officer or person exercising powors under this Regulation, who vexatiously and unnecessarily delays forwarding to a Prohibition Officer or to the officer in charge of the nearest police station, as required by section 50, any person arrested or any article seized under this Regulation, shall be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
11. Any officer or person exercising powers under this Regulation who—
(a) unlawfully releases or abets the escape of any person arrested under this Regulation, or abets the commission of any offence against this Regulation; or
(b) acts in a manner inconsistent with his duty for the purpose of enabling any person to do anything whereby any of the provisions of this Regulation may be evaded or contravened, and any other officer of the Government or of a local body who abets the commission of any offence against this Regulation, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
12. Whoever is guilty of any wilful act or intentional omission in contravention of any of the provisions of this Regulation or of any rule, notification or order made thereunder and not otherwise provided for in this Regulation, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
13. Where any offence under this Regulation is committed in any region where this Regulation is in force, whoever commits, or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, any of the acts making up the offence shall be liable to be punished therefor, whether such commission, attempt or abetment takes place within or outside such region,
14. In any case in which an offence has been committed against this Regulation, the liquor, drug, material, still, utensil; implement or apparatus in respect, or by means, of which the offence has been committed, shall be liable to confiscation along with the receptacles, packages, coverings animals, vessels, carts or other vehicles used to hold or carry the same.