51. Power to enter and inspect places of manufacture and sale.
- The Excise Commissioner, or a Collector or any Excise Officer not below the rank as the State Government may by notification prescribe, or any Police officer duly empowered in that behalf, may -(a)enter and inspect at any time by day or by night, any place in which any licensed manufacturer manufactures or stores any intoxicant; and(b)enter and inspect, at any time within the hours during which sale is permitted and at any other time during which the same be open, any place in which any intoxicant is kept for sale by any person holding a licence under this Act; and(c)examine accounts and registers, and examine, test, measure or weigh any materials, stills, utensils, implements, apparatus or intoxicant found in such place.
