71. Power to recover license fee etc.-

In the case of cancellation or suspension of a license under clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of section 29, the license fee payable for the balance of the period for which any license would have been current but for such cancellation or suspension, including any other fee, may be recovered from such licensee as excise revenue.

72. Power of Collector to take grants under his management or resell and recover deficiency.-

If any holder of a license granted under this Act, or any person to whom a lease has been granted under section 27, makes default in complying with any condition imposed upon him by such license or lease, the Collector may take the grant under his management at the risk of the person who has so defaulted, or may resell it and recover any deficiency in price and all expenses of such resale in the manner specified in section 73 of this Act.

73. Excise revenue to be first charge and recoverable as arrears of land revenue.-

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law for the time being in force, any amount of excise revenue including all other amounts due to the State Government under this Act from any person shall be the first charge on the property of such person including the distillery, brewery, winery, warehouse, shop, premises, fittings, apparatus and all stocks of liquors or materials for manufacture of the same. 

(2) All excise revenue including all other amounts due to the State Government under this Act, which remain unpaid after the due date, shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue under the provisions of the Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1954.