Any Officer not below the rank of a Deputy Tahsildar, Inspector of Police or Drug Inspector or a Taluk Excise Officer may enter and inspect at any time, by day or by night , any place in which a licensee conducts his business in restricted preparations and may require such licensee to furnish him with any information or to produce before him the stock of the restricted preparations, the accounts or other documents relating thereto for purpose of inspection and check and may examine, test and take samples of any restricted preparations dealt with by such licensee and may also seize and detain such of the preparations which he had reasonable grounds to suspect as spurious. The licensee shall maintain an Inspection Note Book in Form S.P. XIII exclusively for the Inspecting Officers for the purpose.
17. Penalty for contravention of the rules or any condition of the licence or permit –
(i) Infraction of any of these rules or conditions of a licence or permit issued under these rules either by a licensee or by any person in his employment shall entail on the licensee-
(a) forfeiture of his security deposit either in full or part; or
(b) cancellation or suspension of the licence; or
(c) both.
(2) It shall be competent for the Collector to impose any or all the above penalties.
(3) The forfeiture of security deposit or the suspension or cancellation of a licence, under these rules shall not, however, relieve the licensee or his agents from liability to be prosecuted for any specific offence committed under the Act or the Rules framed there under.