Assam Students and Juvenile Smoking Act, 1923
[Act No. 2 of 1923]1
Preamble
Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the prevention of smoking by students and by all young persons; and whereas the previous sanction of the Governor-General required under sub-section (3) of section 3 of section 80A of the Government of India Act to clause 3(2) and (4) mentioned herein below, has been obtained:
It is hereby enacted as follows:
Footnote:
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Published in the Assam Gazette, on dated 17-10-1923 (w.e.f. 1-1-1924). This Act has been adapted for its application in the State of Meghalaya, vide the Meghalaya Adaptation of Laws Order (No. 4) of 1971, effective from the appointed day i.e., the 2nd day of April 1970, with the following amendments: For sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 1 of the Assam Act, the following shall be substituted.
"(2) The Government of Meghalaya may, by notification exempt any locality from the operation of this Act."
In section 4 of the Assam Act for the words, "Assam or a member of Municipal or local Board or a member of village authority consisted under section 20 of the Assam Local Self-Government Act, 1915, or of a Town Committee constituted under section 329, subsections (1) and (2) of the Assam Municipal Act, 1913", shall be substituted by the words, "Meghalaya".
Section 1 - Short title
(1) This Act may be called the Assam Students and Juvenile Smoking Act, 1923.
(2) It extends to the whole of Assam:
Provided that the State Government, may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette exempt any locality or localities from the operation of this Act.
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of January nineteen hundred and twenty-four.
Section 2 - Definitions
In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:
(a) "Cigarettes" includes cut tobacco rolled up in paper, tobacco leaf, or other material in such form as to be capable of immediate use for smoking.
(b) "Tobacco" means tobacco in any form and includes any smoking mixture intended as a substitute for tobacco.
(c) "Police Officer" means a member of an established police force above the rank of a head constable.
(d) "Students" means any scholar in school or college.
Section 3 - Prohibition against sale of tobacco to students and to all young persons
(1) No person shall sell or give to a person apparently under the age of 16, or to a student apparently under the age of 17, any tobacco, cigarettes, pipes or cigarettes paper, whether for his own use or not:
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