(2) No member of the armed forces obtaining foreign liquor in a military or naval canteen or mess for use or consumption there in shall give such liquor to any person who is not a member of the armed forces.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in conditions (1) and (2), the use and consumption of foreign liquor by members of the armed forces in a military or naval canteen or mess shall be regulated by the Defence Regulations to which such canteen or mess may for the time being be subject.
1[Explanation—For the purpose of this order, the expression "armed forces" does not include personnel of the Territorial Army constituted under the Territorial Army Act, 1948, except when the members thereof are employed on the permanent staff of a Territorial Army unit, or are embodied for supporting or supplementing the regular army, or are called out in aid of the civil power, or are embodied for attachment to a regular army unit for training.]1
{125} GN.R.D. No.9987/49,dated 25th November 1955
(B.G, Pt. IV-B. p. 1515)
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (g) of section 139 of the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 (Bom. XXV of 1949), the Government of Bombay is pleased to direct that notwithstanding anything contained in clause (v) of sub-section (2) of section 34 of the said Act, the vendors licenses referred to in Government Order, Revenue Department No. 9987/87, dated the 12th June 1953, shall be permitted to sell foreign liquor to military and naval canteens and messes referred to in the said Order, although such canteen and messes may not hold licences.
{126} GN.R.D. No. PRT. 1857/169563, dated 18th October 1958
(B.G, Pt. IV-B. p. 1282)
Amended by GN.H.D. No. PRT. 1857/31131-III, dated 3rd July 1963
(M.G, Pt. IV-B. p. 863)
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of section 139 of the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 (Bom. XXV of 1949), the Government of Bombay hereby makes the following order, namely:
1.
Any Officer Commanding, Army or Naval Supply Depot or Victualling Yard 2[]2, desiring to import, export, transport, or sell, by wholesale, Indian-made liquor (rum) to any Officer Commanding, Army or Naval or Air Force Unit or Hospital, shall apply to the Collector for a licence in that behalf.
2.
On receipt of an application under clause (1), the Collector shall make such enquires as he may deem necessary and if he is satisfied that there is no objection to grant the licence applied for, he may, with the previous sanction of the State Government, grant the applicant a licence in Form "A" hereto annexed.
3.
(1) No Officer Commanding, Army or Naval or Air Force Unit or Hospital, shall obtain Indian-made foreign liquor (rum) except from a person holding a licence in Form "A" under clause 2; provided that such liquor may be obtained without a licence, permit, pass or authorisation.