Section 57: Import, export, transport, manufacture, sale or possession by one person on account of another

The Tripura Excise Act, 1987State Act of Tripura · Act 12 of 1987

(1) When any intoxicant has been imported, transported, manufactured or sold or is possessed by any person on account of any other person, and such other person knows or has reason to believe that such import, export, transport, manufacture or sale was, or that such possession is, on his account, the article shall, for the purpose of this Act, he deemed to have been imported, exported, transported, manufactured or sold by, or to be in the possession of, such other person.

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall absolve any person who imports, exports, transports, manufactures, sells or has possession of an intoxicant on account of another person from liability to any punishement under this Act for the unlawful import, export, transport, manufacture, sale or possession of such article.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Tripura Excise Act, 1987
Section	57
Marginal note	Import, export, transport, manufacture, sale or possession by one person on account of another
Jurisdiction	State of Tripura
Status	In force as published by the source

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