Section 5 of The Bengal Excise Act, 1909 — Definition of retail and wholesale
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- (1)The State Government may, by notification, declare with respect either to the whole of '[West Bengal] or to any specified local area, and as regards purchasers generally or any specified class of purchasers, and either generally or for any specified occasion, what quantity of any intoxicant shall, for the purposes of this Act, be the limit of a retail sale.
- (2)The sale of any intoxicant in any quantity in excess of the quantity declared in respect thereof uhder sub-section
- (1)shall be deemed to be a sale by wholesale.