Tamil Nadu Prohibition Act Section 6 — Prohibition of advertisement: Whoever prints or publishes in any newspaper, book, leaflet, booklet or any other single or periodical publication or otherwise displays or distributed any advertisement or other matter soliciting the use of, or offering any liquor or untoxicating drug other than liquor, or drugs exempted under Section 16, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both: Provided that this section shall not apply:
Criminal
Summary
Whoever prints or publishes in any newspaper, book, leaflet, booklet, or any other single or periodical publication, or otherwise displays or distributes any advertisement or other matter that solicits the use of, or offers, any liquor or any intoxicating drug other than liquor, or any drug exempted under Section 16, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
The section does not apply in the following cases:
Under clause (a), it does not apply to plain catalogues and price lists which may be generally or specially approved by the Commissioner.
Under clause (b), it does not apply to advertisements in medical journals, or to notices and literature circulated exclusively to members of the medical profession, if such advertisements, notices or literature relate to any liquor or intoxicating drug which has been specially approved as of medicinal value by any of the following: (i) the Medical Council established by the Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914; or (ii) any other Medical Council established under any law in force in any other State, or recognised by the Government of such State; or (iii) such authority in respect of Indian medicine as may be notified by the State Government.
Under clause (c), it does not apply to the normal circulation within the State of newspapers, periodicals and books printed and published in accordance with law outside the State.
Under clause (d), it does not apply to any advertisement contained in a newspaper printed and published in the State before the first day of January 1938.
Section 6-A, sub-section (1): Except as otherwise provided in sub-sections (2) and (3), no person shall import, export, transport, sell or have in his possession any quantity of molasses.
Sub-section (2): The State Government may, by general or special order, authorise any officer to grant licences for the import, export, sale or possession of molasses.
Sub-section (3): The State Government may also authorise any officer to grant permits for the transport of molasses.
Section 6-B, sub-section (1): Except as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), no person shall transit any liquor.
Sub-section (2): Subject to the control of the State Government, the Collector or any officer not below the rank of a Deputy Collector empowered by him in this behalf may issue a permit for transit of any liquor in such form and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed. Every application for a transit permit shall be made within such time as may be prescribed and shall be accompanied by copies of the export and import permits issued by the concerned States from which, and to which, the liquor is in transit.
Sub-section (3): The following shall be conditions of every permit issued under sub-section (2): (a) that the transit of liquor shall be made along the routes or route specified in the permit; and (b) that the transit shall be under police escort at such scale as may be prescribed, provided by the prescribed authority at the cost of the person who transits liquor.
Official Text
(a) to plain catalogues and price lists which may be generally or specially approved by the Commissioner; or
(b) to advertisements in medical journals, or to notices and literature circulated exclusively to members of the medical profession, if such advertisements, notices or literature relate to say liquor or intoxicating drug which has been specially approved as of medicinal value:-- i. by the Medical Council established by the Tamil Nadu Medical Registration Act, 1914 (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1914); or ii. by any other Medical Council which has been established under any law for the time being in force in any other State or which has been recognised by the Government of such State; or iii. by such authority in respect of Indian medicine as may be notified by the State Government; or
(c) to the normal circulation within the State of newspapers, periodicals and books printed and published in accordance with law outside the State; or
(d) to any advertisement contained in a newspaper printed and published in the State before the first day of January 1938. 6-A. Control and regulation of molasses:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in sub-sections
(2) and (3), no person shall import, export, transport, sell or have in his possession any quantity of molasses.
(2) The State Government may, by general or special order, authorise any officer to grant licences for the import, export, sale or possession of molasses.
(3) The State Government may also authorise any officer to grant permits for the transport of molasses. 6-B. Regulation of transit of liquor: --
(1) Except as otherwise provided in sub-section (2),no person shall transit any liquor.
(2) Subject to the control of the State Government, the Collector or any officer not below the rank of a Deputy Collector empowered by him in this behalf may issue permit for transit of any liquor in such form and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed. Every application for transit permit shall be made within such time as may be prescribed and shall be accompanied by copies of the export, and import permits issued by the concerned States from which, and to which, the liquor is in transit.
(3) The following shall be conditions of every permit issued under sub-section (2) –
(a) that the transit of liquor shall be made along the routes or route specified in the permit ; and
(b) that the transit shall be under police escort at such scale as may be prescribed provided by the prescribed authority at the cost of the person who transits liquor.