Act Number: 12

Act Name: The Poisons Act, 1919

Year: 1919

Enactment Date: 1919-09-03

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating the importation, possession and sale of poisons.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Home

Section 3: Power to prohibit importation into the States of any poison except under licence.
    The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit, except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence, the importation into 1 [India] 2 [across any customs frontier3 defined by the Central Government] of any specified poison, and may by rule regulate the grant of licences.
Notes:
1. Sub. By Act 47 of 1958, s. 3, for "the States".
2. Ins. by the A.O. 1937.
3. For definition of the customs frontiers of India, see Gazette of India, 1955, Pt. II, sec. 3, p. 1521.
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