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 29-2 GUJARAT ACT NO. 29 OF 2011.

(First published, after having received the assent of the Governor in the "Gujarat Government Gazette", on the 2nd December, 2011).

AN ACT

further to amend the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949. It is hereby enacted in the Sixtieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2009.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. In the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act"), in section 2. after clause (23), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-

"(23A) "Laththa" means spurious liquor, which contains methanol or any other poisonous substances, which may cause harmful or injurious effects to the human body or death of a person;"

3. In the principal Act, in section 65. the proviso shall be deleted.

4. in the principal Act, after section 65. the following section shall be inserted, namely:-

"65A. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, whoever,-


 * (a) manufactures laththa.
 * (b) constructs or works any distillery or brewery for it,
 * (c) sells or buys laththa, or
 * (d) uses, keeps, transports or has in his possession laththa,