Punjab Restaurant (Consumption of Liquor) Rules, 1955 Published vide Punjab Notification No. 4618-E&T-55-1224… — The Punjab Excise Act, 1914(Bare Act )

Punjab Restaurant (Consumption of Liquor) Rules, 1955 Published vide Punjab Notification No. 4618-E&T-55-1224(CH) dated Sth November 1955 1. Short title These rules may be called the Punjab Restaurant (Consumption of Liquor) Rules, 1955. 2. Definitions In these rules unless the context otherwise requires [(a) 'restaurant' means any place to which the public is admitted for consumption of food or drink for a consideration and includes have attached to a retail country liquor vend] [and a retail foreign liquor vend] (b) "proprietor" means the proprietor of a restaurant and includes any occupier thereof defined in sub-section (10) of section 3 of the Punjab Municipal Act; (III of 1911); [(c) 'Licenced restaurant' means a restaurant which has been licensed under these rules]; (d) 'Licencee' means any proprietor of a restaurant licensed under these rules; (dd) 'Form' means a form appended to these rules]: (e) "country liquor" means country liquor as defined in the Punjab Excise Liquor Definitions, 1954 "foreign liquor" means foreign liquor as defined in the Punjab Excise Liquor Definitions, 1954. [3. No person shall keep or have in his possession country liquor or foreign liquor in any quantity on any premises used as a restaurant in any of the places enumerated in the Appendix to these rules where under sub-section (4) of section 24 of the Punjab Excise Act, 1914 (Punjab Act of 1914), the consumption of liquor in a restaurant has been prohibited by the State Government by notification or in any other place in regard to which a similar notification may have issued or may subsequently be issued by the State Government; unless such premises have been licensed for consumption of liquor under the said Act or rules made thereunder;] This shall have effect whether or not the quant