No excisable article shall be imported unless: -
(a)the 1[State Government] has given permission, either general or special, for its import;
(b) such conditions (if any) as the 1[State Government] impose, have been satisfied, and
(c) the duty (if any) imposed under Section 28 has been paid or a bond has been executed for the payment thereof.
No excisable article shall be exported unless -
(a) the duty (if any) imposed under Section 28 has been paid or a bond has been executed for the payment thereof, and
(b) such conditions (if any) as the 1[State Government] may impose, have been satisfied.
The 1[State Government] may, by notification in the 1[Official Gazette]: -
(a) prohibit the import or export of any excisable article into or from the 1[territories to which this Act extends or any part thereof];
(b) prohibit the transport of any excisable article.
(. Substituted vide Rajasthan Act. No. 38 of 1957)
No excisable article exceeding such quantity as the 1[State Government] may prescribe by notification in the 1[Official Gazette] either generally for 1[all the territories of the State of Rajasthan to which this Act extends] or for any local area comprised therein shall be imported, exported or transported except under a pass issued under the provisions of the next following section:
2[X X X X]
(Omitted vide Rajasthan Act. No. 22 of 1958 )
Provided also, unless the 1[State Government] shall otherwise direct, that no pass shall he required for transport of any excisable article or intoxicating drug exported under a pass issued by an officer duly authorised in this behalf from any place beyond the limits of 1[those parts of the State of Rajasthan to which this Act extends] to any other place beyond the said limits.
(Substituted vide Rajasthan Act. No. 38 of 1957 )
(1) Passes for the import, export or transport of excisable article may be granted by the Excise Commissioner 4[or by an Excise Officer duly empowered in this behalf] subject to such restrictions as the 1[State Government] may impose in this behalf from time to time.
(2) Such passes may either be general for definite periods and kinds of articles or drugs or special for specified occasions or particular consignments only.
(Inserted vide Rajasthan Act. No. 28 of 1952