State Act

The Assam Students and Juvenile Smoking Act, 1923

4. Power of Police Officer to seize and order to seize and to destroy tobacco etc. in possession of young persons. It shall be lawful for a police officer in uniform, or any member of the Legislature of Assam or a member of Municipal or Local Board, or a member of a Village Authority constituted under S. 20 of the Assam Local Self-Government Act, 1915, or of a Town Committee constituted under S. 329, sub-Ss. (1) and (2), of the Assam Municipal Act, 1923 (Act 1 of 1923) or a teacher of a recognised school, professor of a college, legal practitioner, duly accredited medical practitioner, minister or missionary of any recognised religious body, retired gazetted Government Officer, Secretary and Member of the Committees of a recognised school, or any other person or class of persons authorised by the State Government in this behalf, to seize tobacco, pipes, cigarettes or cigarette papers in the possession of any person apparently under the age of 16 or of any student under the age of 18, whom he finds smoking in any street or public place, and to destroy any such article.