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other like documents (herein after referred to as the "opium permits") duly granted on medical grounds by any competent authority of any other State in India under any law relating to excise or prohibition or both for the possession, use and consumption of opium herein after referred to as "the permit holders" form clause (a), clause (b), clause (c) and clause (e) of Section 17 and clause (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 105 in so far as it relates to imposition of excise duty or countervailing duty on opium imported, exported, transported or possessed, of the said Act, subject to the following conditions, namely:

  1. The permit-holders shall during their stay in this State carry with them their opium permits, and also certificate duly dated, issued by such competent authority certifying the grant of such opium permits to them, and on arrival in this state, they shall forthwith get such certificate countersigned by a Prohibition Officer of the place of such arrival.

  2. The permit-holders shall not possess opium in excess of the quantities authorised to be possessed under their opium permits.

  3. The exemption granted by this Order shall be valid for a period of one month from the date of the issued of the certificates aforesaid.

  4. On the expiry of the period of exemption, the permit-holders shall surrender their opium permits and the stock of opium, if any, remaining with them, to the Collector.

150 G.N., H.D., No. GNJ-1161/29091-UI, dated 24th October 1961 (M.G. Pt. IV-B, p. 1013)

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (c) of sub-section (7) of section 139 of the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 (Bom. XXV of 1949), the Government of Maharashtra hereby exempts the Principal, Curved Mahavidyalaya, Pune (herein after referred to as "the college") from the observance of the provisions of clause (b) of Section 14 of that act, in so far as it relates to cultivation and collection of bhang plants, subject to the conditions that—

  1. the maximum number of such plants planted does not exceed five in number;

  2. the plants are planted only in the medical plants garden attached to the college;

  3. the yield of the plants is collected and handed over to the Superintendent of Prohibition and Excise, Pune, free of cost:

  4. the plants are used for only the purposes of demonstration to students of the College; and plants are open to inspection by the Superintendent of Prohibition and Excise, Pune, or any Officer of the Prohibition and Excise Department authorised by him in that behalf.

151 G.N., H.D., No. OPM-1461/125645-III, dated 13th October 1961 (M.G. Pt. IV-B, p. 989)

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by Article 258-A of the Constitution of India, the Governor of Maharashtra is pleased, with the consent of the Government of India, to entrust to the Officers of the Narcotic Department of the Government of India of and above the rank of a Sub-Inspector, the functions, under sub-section (7) of Section 121 of the