71. Exemption

(1) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Act applies to the import,  manufacture, possession, sale or supply of any bonafide medicated article for medicinal purposes  by medical practitioners, chemists, druggists, apothecaries or keepers of dispensaries, except in so  far as the Government may by notification in the 1[Official Gazette] so direct. 

2[(2) Where in the opinion of the] 3[State Government] reasonable grounds exist for doing so,  the 3[State Government] may, by like notification and subject to such conditions and restrictions  as it may impose, exempt and person or class of persons or any excisable article from all or any  of the provisions of this act or of the rules made thereunder either 4[throughout the territories to  which this Act extends] or in any specified part thereof or for any specified period or occasion. 

(3) every notification issued by the State Government under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2)  shall be laid before the House of State Legislature at the session thereof next following and shall  be liable to be rescinded or modified by a resolution of that House.

(1. Substituted vide Rajasthan Act No. 38 of 1957 

2. Substituted vide Rajasthan Act No. 35 of 1956 

3. Substituted vide Rajasthan Act No. 38 of 1957 

4. Substituted vide Rajasthan Act No. 38 of 1957 )

72. Publication of rules and notification.

All rules made and notifications issued under this  Act shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall thereupon have effect as if enacted in this  Act from the date of such publication or from such other date, as may be specified in that behalf.

(5. Substituted vide Rajasthan Act No. 28 of 1961 )

73. Bar of certain suits. -

No suit prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the  State Government or against any officer or person for any thing in good faith done or intended to  be done in pursuance of this Act.

74. Powers exercisable from time to time.

Any power conferred by this Act on the Excise  Commissioner may be exercised from time to time as occasion requires. 

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 (6. omitted vide Rajasthan Act No. 38 of 1957)