Industrial Alcohol Act, 1938

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Inspection of premises of distributors.

48.—(1) Any authorised officer may at all reasonable times enter any premises in which any distributor carries on business and there do all or any of the following things, that is to say examine any process of blending industrial alcohol and mineral hydrocarbon light oils being carried on in such premises, and examine and take without payment samples of any mineral hydrocarbon light oils or any blend of industrial alcohol and mineral hydrocarbon light oils found in such premises.

(2) Every person who obstructs any authorised officer in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(3) In this section the expression “authorised officer” means a person authorised in writing by the Minister to exercise the powers conferred on an authorised officer by this section.