(1) It shall not be necessary for the Medical Stores Depot, Chennai to obtain a licence for the possession of any quantity of rectified spirit or absolute alcohol or a permit for the transport of consignments of rectified spirit or absolute alcohol from the distillery to the premises of the Medical Stores Depot. But the transport of rectified spirit or absolute alcohol from the Medical Stores Depot to the premises of the indentors in this State who are authorized to obtain supplies from the Medical Stores Depot, shall be covered by a transport permit issued by the Collector of Chennai in Form R.T.P.
(2) The following persons and institutions may at any one time possess without a licence or transport without a permit, rectified spirit or absolute alcohol up to the maximum quantity specified against each case.
Provided that, such persons and institutions shall, however, obtain before hand from the Collector concerned, a fly-leaf in Form R.L.F.
(a) Any Government Arts or Professional College or any other educational institution or any Primary Health Centre or Municipal Hospital other than Government Headquarters Hospital – Fifteen litres.
(b) Any Government Headquarters Hospital – Twenty five litres. The Government Mental Hospital, Chennai, the Indian Research Fund Association Field Laboratory, Tiruchirappalli and the King Institute, Guindy shall be treated as Government Headquarters Hospital.
(c) Any key village centre, the Superintendent, Institute of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Ranipet, Veterinary Disease Investigation Officers (Cattle, Sheep, Goats and Poultry), Ranipet – Twenty five litres.
(d) Veterinary Assistant Surgeons, in-charge of Veterinary Dispensaries – Fifteen litres.
(e) Any Pharmacy or Scientific body – Two litres.
(f) Research Assistant attached to Fisheries Department and Cinchona Department – Ten litres at a time.
(g) Director, Tamil Nadu Forensic Science Laboratory – Six hundred litres.
(h) Assistant Superintendent (Chemist), Archaeology Survey of India – Southern Zone, Chennai – 9 – Twenty litres.
(i) Drug testing Laboratory, Chennai – 6 – One hundred and sixty litres.