(1)These rules may be called the Tamil Nadu Liquor Retail Vending (in Shops and Bars) Rules, 2003.
(2) These rules shall come into force on the 29the November 2003.
2. Definitions -– In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires,---
(a) “Act” means the Tamil Nadu Prohibition Act, 1937 (Tamil Nadu Act X of 1937);
(b) “Agent” means the Co-operative Society appointed as agent by the Corporation for retail sale of liquor on behalf of the Corporation;
(c) “Assistant Commissioner / Deputy Commissioner” means the Assistant Commissioner (Excise) / Deputy Commissioner (Excise) in charge of the district;
(d) “bar” means a place located within the shop or adjoining the shop used for consumption therein of liquor;
(e) “bottled liquor” means liquor put in bottles or other receptacles, corked, sealed and labelled by the manufacturer before issue for sales;
(f) “Collector” means the Collector of the Revenue District;
(g) “Corporation” means the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited;
(h) “depot” means licensed premises in which stocks of bottled liquor are kept for sale by wholesale by the Corporation and includes branches of the Corporation;
(i) “distance” means the distance by the shortest pathway, lane, street or road, generally used by the members of the public;
(j) “educational institution” means a place where there is regular conduct of classes and includes Schools, Polytechnics, Industrial Training Institutes and Colleges but does not include Tutorial institutes;
(k) “Excise Officer” means Officer-in-charge of Excise work in the taluk or division, as the case may be;
(l) “Form” means the form appended to these Rules;
(m)“Government” means the Government of Tamil Nadu;
(n) “licence” means a licence granted under sub-section (1-B) of Section 17- C of the Act, to the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited;
(o) “liquor” means Indian made Foreign Spirits;
[oo) “maximum retail price” means the price determined by adding retail profit margin at the rate of 2[0.05%] of stock transfer price and sales tax payable by the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited under the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959, to the stock transfer price of Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited;]
(p) “Place of worship” means a temple, mosque, church or gurudwara where organised and ritualistic prayers are offered regularly at least once in a week but does not include any structure whether with or without a deity on road-side, pavement or footway or in the compound of any building which is not a place of worship by itself;
(q) “retail vending of liquor” with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means the vending of liquor by a licensee being the grantee of the privilege of retail sale of bottled Indian-made foreign spirits, but does not include the vending of liquor by the FL2 to FL9 licence holders referred to under the heading “(A) Licences for liquor used for consumption” in sub-rule (a) of rule 17 of the Tamil Nadu Liquor (Licence and Permit) Rules, 1981;
(r) “shop” means the building in which the liquor is stocked and sold;
(rr) (Vide Slip)
(s) “Transport permit” mean the permit issued for transport of liquor from the depot of the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited to the retail vending shop within the State.