(1) Whenever any intoxicant is manufactured or collected, or any hemp plant is cultivated, in or on any land or building, in contravention of this Act -
(a) all owners and occupiers of such land or building or their agent, and
(b) (i) Village Karnams or the peons working under them,
(ii) all officers (other than Excise Officers), employed in the collection of revenue or rent of land on behalf of the Government, or a local authority in the locality in which such land or building is situated, shall, in the absence of reasonable excuse, be bound to give notice of the fact to a magistrate or to an officer of the Excise or Police or Revenue Department as soon as the fact comes to their knowledge.
(2) Every Excise Officer shall be bound to give immediate information either to his immediate official superior or to an Excise Inspector, of all breaches of any of the provisions of this Act, which may come to his knowledge under subsection (1) or otherwise.
(3) All such officers, or servants as are referred to in sub-section (1) shall be bound ---
(a) to take all reasonable measures in their power to prevent the commission of such breaches which they may know, or have reason to believe are about or likely to be committed; and
(b) to assist the Excise Commissioner in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Power to enter and inspect places of manufacture and sale
50. The Excise Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or any other Excise Officer not below such rank as may be prescribed, or any Police Officer duly empowered in that behalf, may ---
(a) enter and inspect, at any time, by day or by night, any place in which any licensed manufacturer, manufacturers or stores any intoxicant, and
(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;
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(c) examine the accounts and registers, and examine, test, measure or weigh any materials, stills, utensils, implements, apparatus, or intoxicant found in such place.
Power to arrest without warrant, to seize articles liable for confiscation and to make searches