(1) This Act may be cited as the [Madhya Pradesh] 3 Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1947.
[(2) It extends to ani shall be in force in the whole of Madhya Pradexh.]'
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the SU bject or contest, -
(a) "cotton" means Indian raw cotton and includes seed cotton: lint and fly;
"Director" means the Director of Agriculture, Madhya Pradesh and includes any officer appointed by the State Government to perform any of the functions of the Director under this ACt.J5
(c) "owner" means the OWner of a cotton ginning factory or a cotton pressing factory and includes the managing agent or other principal officer of such factory;
(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
( e) "trader" means a person, other than an owner.car rying on the business of buying or selling cotton for the purposes of gain or profi t and in cludes------_._--- ....__ .__ ._--_._-- .._ ..--- -
1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Central Provinces and Berar Gazette dutCli t:l'~ ISrh July, 1947, Part II, page 125. For proceedings in Assembly, see Central Provinces and Ber ar Legislative Assembly Proceedings, 1947, Vol. IV, pages 17 and 18 of No. 10, dated the 21st October, J9f17.
2. Subs. by A.O ]950, for "rnc Cerural Provinces and Ber ar".
3. Subs. by M.P Act 23 of 195[;_ S. 3 (4)fof "Central Provinces and Ber ar ".
4. Subs, ibid S. 3 (3) Sch.. p ar t A, item 49, Cor sub-sections (2) and (3).
-The Act came into force in tile former Madhya Pradesh \.)11 the 1st February, 1948, see Commerce and industry Department Notification No. 401-6688- VII, dated the 20til Juuuarv, 1948 issued under sub-section (.'n above and published in the Central Pr~vinces and Berar Gazette, dated the 23rd January,~948, Part I, Page 47 5 Subs by M. P. Act 14 of 1977. S. 2.
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THE MADHYA PRADESH COTTON (STATISTICS) ACf, 1947 a manufacturer, or
(ii)
(iii) an importer who carries on such business, or a broker or commission agent who contracts for the sale or purchase of cotton for others and stocks cotton on th eir behalf, or
(iv) any other person who holds the prescribed quantity of cotton;
(f) "year" means a year cornmencing on the 1st clay of September;
(g) .,' •• C" " "the expreSSIOns cotton gmrnng tactory an cotton pressing factory" have respectiv~ly. the meanir:gs assigned to them by the Cotton Gmmng and Pressing Factories Act, 1925 (XII of 1925).
Q (1) Every owner and every trad er shall each year submit on or before the prescribed date to the Director throws h such officer, if any, as the State Government may by notification from time to time specify, a return in the prescribed form of the quantity of cotton of different varieties m his possession on the last clay of the previous year.
(2) Every return submitted under sub-section (1) shall be signed by the person submitting it.
4. The Director or any person authorised by him in writing- in this behalf shall, for the purpose or collecting any statisues required under section 3 or for testing the accuracy of any return submitted under section 3, have access to every relevant document, book of account or other record in the possession of any owner or trader and may at any reasonable time between sunrise and sunset with or without notice to such owner or trader, as the case may be, enter any premises wherein he believes such document, book or other record to be, and examine and take copies of, or extracts from, the document, book of account or other record. The Director or the person so authorised may ask any question and make any enquiry necessary for obtaining any information required for the aforesaid purpose and shall also have access to any premises where he has reason to believe that cotton is stocked .
. 5. The Director may use returns submitted under section 3 and information obtained under section 4 for-
(a) compiling statistics required by the Indian Gentral Cotton Committee constituted under the Indian Cotton Cess Act, 1923 (XIV of 1923);
(b) such purposes in respect of the matters enumerated in list II of the Seventh Schedule to the [Constitution],! as the State Government may direct.
1. Subs. by A. O. 1950 fo, "Government of India Act, 1935".
1 ~l Submission of yearly returns of cotton.
Right of access, inspection and search.
Use or returns of information.
1B2 R,~~:dctioll 011 publication of returns and information.
Penalties.
Penalty for improper disclosure of informa- ,ion. Or returns.
Ccgnivance of offences.
Protection for acts done in good faith.
THE MADHYA PRADESH COTTON (STATISTICS) ACT, 1947