CGPF ActMaharashtra1954
The Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories (Hyderabad Amendment) Act, 1954
Act No. 33 of 1954
- Sections
- 13
- Classified offences
- 6
Contents
- 1Short title, extent and commencement
- 2Amendment of section 2, Act XII of 1925
- 2BControl of rates chargeable for ginning and pressing cotton. - (1) The Government may, by notification, declare that in any local area specified in such notification no owner or person in charge of a cotton ginning or cotton pressing factory situated in such local area shall
- 3Insertion of new sections 2-A and 2-B, Act XII of 1925
- 3BPenalty for watering, etc. of cotton. - Any owner of cotton who does any of the following acts, that is who knowingly makes or causes to be made wet any cotton which is ginned and which is being or is intended to be pressed in a cotton pressing factory, or mixes or causes to be mixed there with, seed, foreign substance or cotton waste, or in any area specified in sub-section (1) of section 3-A makes any admixture of cotton or abets or knowingly allows or connives at any such act shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees
- 3CExamination of cotton packages or bales. - (1) The Government or any gazetted officer authorised by it in this behalf may on its or his own notion or on receipt of a complaint that there has been a contravention of the provisions of section 3-A or section 3-B in respect of any cotton, package or of any bale and in the case of a complaint on payment of the prescribed fee by the complainant, cause such cotton or the contents of such package or bale to be examined by the prescribed person or body
- 3DEntry and inspection. - (1) The Government may authorise any gazetted officer to enter into and inspect, at any reasonable time, any cotton ginning or cotton pressing factory for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is any contravention therein of any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule made thereunder or of any of the conditions subject to which a licence has been granted in respect of such factory and to seize all things in respect of which an offence punishable under this Act appears to have been committed
- 4Amendment of section 3, Act XII of 1925
- 5Insertion of new sections 3-A, 3-B, 3-C and 3-D, Act XII of 1925
- 6Substitution of new section for sections 5 and 5-A, Act XII of 1925
- 7Amendment of section 7, Act XII of 1925
- 8Substitution of a new section for section 13, Act XII of 1925
- 9Insertion of section 16, Act XII of 1925