(1) The [State Government] 2 shall cause a register to be prepared of persons who are not under the age of twenty five years and who are in the habit of smoking prepared opium.
1- This Act has been extended to the areas mentioned in column 1 of this table under the Act or order mentioned in column 2 and enforced in such areas under notification, any, mentioned in column 3 with effect from the date mentioned in column 4 against each such area;
Area Act or Order under which extended Notification, if any, under which enforced Date from which enforced 1 2 3 4
1. Rampur district … -- …
2. Banaras District Banaras (application of Laws) Order, 1949 No. 1892/XVII, dated June 27, 1950 July 1, 1950
3. Tehri-Garhwal district Tehri Garhwal (Application of laws) Order, 1949 No. 1826/XVII, dated June 27, 1950 Ditto 2- Subs. by the A.O. 1950 for (Provincial Government) which had been substituted by the A.O. 1937 for (Local Govt.).
207 [The United Provinces Opium Smoking Act, 1934] [Section 4-8]
(2) Such register shall be prepared by such authority and in such manner as the [State Government] 1 may, by rules made under this act, prescribe, and shall contain such particulars and shall be in such form as the Excise Commissioner may be notification prescribe.
(3) Such register shall be closed on a date to be fixed and notified in the official Gazette by the [State Government] 1 and, subject to such exception as the [State Government] 1 may by notification prescribe, no such entry shall be made there in after such date.
(4) All persons who are eligible for being registered under this Act as smoker of prepared opium shall, up to the date fixed for closing the entries in the register be considered as registered smokers, whether their names are actually entered in the register or not.
Smoking prepared opium by unregistered smoker Manufacture and possession by registered smoker Act I of 1878 Assistance in the manufacture of prepared opium