(1) No holder of a license granted under this Act to sell an 1[intoxicant] shall surrender his license except on the expiration of one month’s notice in writing given by him to the Collector of his intention to surender the same and on payment of the fee payable for the license for the whole period for which it would have been current but for the surrender:
Technical irregularities in license, etc.
No claim in consequence of refusal to renew a license, etc.
Surrender of license.
1. Substituted for the word “excisable article” by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937.
332 EXCISE [1914: Pb. Act 1 Power to enter and inspect places of manufacture and sale.
Power of excise officers to investigate offences punishable under this Act.
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 license granted under section 27(2).
Explanation.― The words “holder of a license” as used in this section include a person whose tender or bid for a license has been accepted, although he may not actually have received the license.
CHAPTER VII.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS, ETC.
45. Any excise officer not below such rank as the ²[State] Government may prescribe may―
(a) enter and inspect, at any time by day or by night, any place in which any licensed manufacturer carries on the manufacture of or stores any 1[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 1[intoxicant] is kept for sale by any person holding a license under this Act;
(c) examine accounts and registers, test, measure or weigh any materials, stills, utensils, implements, apparatus or 1[intoxicant] found in that place;
(d) seize any accounts, registers, measures, weights or testing instruments which he has reason to believe to be false.