Punjab Restaurant (Consumption of Liquor) Rules , 1955 — 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 5th 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 I 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 . (f) " 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;]