(1) A Certificate of Agmark Grading shall be issued by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or an officer authorised by him in this behalf on a written request from the authorised packer.
(2) The Certificate of Agmark Grading shall be issued in the form given in Schedule VIII.
(3) In the case of lots of scoured wool, a conditioning certificate shall be issued by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or an officer authorised by him in this behalf as an appendix to the Certificate of Agmark Grading.
15. “Special conditions of authorisation —
(1) Wool of one grade only shall be packed in one lot.
(2) The under mentioned conditions shall be the conditions of every Certificate of Authorisation issued for the purpose of these rules, namely:-
(a) the premises of wool merchants and baling presses shall be clean and tidy and shall provide adequate space, facilities for cleaning, sorting, baling, weighing, storage, official inspection and marking of wool;
(b) all instructions regarding method of sampling, testing, marking and inspection of wool before and after the pressing and maintenance of records thereof, issued by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India from time to time shall be strictly observed by all concerned;
(c) grade designation marks shall only be applied to the articles mentioned in the Certificate of Authorisation and at the premises therein mentioned;
(d) during the operation of the Certificate of Authorisation, the holder there of shall, at all reasonable times, give access to the premises named therein to any person duly authorised by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central Government and shall afford him facilities for ascertaining that marking is being correctly performed;
(e) the holder of the Certificate of Authorisation shall keep a record of the number of packages marked with each grade designation mark and shall permit any person duly authorised by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central Government to examine the records;
(f) the holder of the Certificate of Authorisation shall permit any duly authorised person by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central Government to take samples of any graded produce or to open and inspect any package bearing a grade designation mark, provided that all samples shall be paid for;
(g) any person authorised in this behalf by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central 3 Government may cancel or remove a grade designation mark from a graded produce (should such produce be found by such person as not to comply with the definition of quality prescribed for that article; provided that whenever grade designation marks are removed from graded produce belonging to distributors, and not to authorised packers, the latter shall, when so directed by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India, make good to the former any loss sustained as result of the removal of the grade designation mark, the loss being estimated on the basis of the additional value that properly graded produce would have obtained in the market over and above the current market value of the corresponding quantity of the upgraded product);
(h) all the rules made under the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking ) Act, 1937 (and all instructions regarding methods of sampling, analysis, submission of periodical returns, etc., which may be issued from time to time, by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India), shall be observed;
(i) any Certificate of Authorisation may be cancelled, revoked, modified or suspended by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by any other person authorised by the Central Government in that behalf, provided that 14 days notice in writing shall be given to the Certificate holder at the address stated on the Certificate of Authorisation and an opportunity given him for showing cause why his Certificate of Authorisation shall not be cancelled, revoked, modified or suspended;
(j) any holder of a Certificate of Authorisation may, with the written consent of the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India, use a replica of the Agmark design on his business papers and catalogues;
(k) any stencil, rubber stamp, punch or other instrument or label required for marking graded produce in the prescribed manner shall be obtained only from the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India, or a person authorised by him, on payment of such charges as the Central Government may, from time to time, fix in this behalf, shall be kept in safe custody by the holder of the Certificate of Authorisation, and shall, so far as may be, be returned to the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or such authorised person when the Certificate of Authorisation ceases to be valid;
(l) the issue or use of grade designation mark labels or any stencil, rubber stamp, punch or other instrument required for marking graded produce in the prescribed manner may be withheld or withdrawn by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or a person authorised by him in this behalf without any notice, for such period as he may consider expedient in the interest of better marketing, if he is satisfied or has reasons to believe that the authorised packer is not applying, or is not likely to apply, grade designation marks correctly : and
(m) the holder of a Certificate of Authorisation shall pay such charges as may be prescribed by the Central Government from time to time, towards the expenses incurred in connection with measures for enforcing the quality control of scheduled articles marked with grade designation marks including testing of samples and inspection of such articles or with any publicity work carried out to promote the sale of any class of such articles.” 4
SCHEDULE I (See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Clipped and Mixed Wools Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ------------------------------------------ Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool 1 2 3 4 5 A. CLIPPED White White over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Tinged Tinged Over 77 White White Over 80 5% Over 85 Over 90 Pale Pale Over 70 Yellow Yellow Over 77 Over 80 5% Over 85 Yellow Yellow Over 90 Colored Colored Over 70 Over 75 5% Over 80 B. MIXED White White over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Tinged Tinged Over 74 White White Over 77 5% Pale Pale Over 80 Yellow Yellow Over 85 Yellow Yellow over 90 Colored Colored Over 70 Explanation:- The term ‘Mixed’ shall mean Over 75 5% admixture of pulled wool and/or carded wool with Over 80 clipped wool. It shall be declared as Mixed if the admixture is in excess of 10%. If the percentage of admixture of pulled and/or carded wool exceeds 25%, it shall be declared as pulled wool or carded wool, as the case may be depending upon the type of admixture.
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SCHEDULE II (See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Pulled Wool Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ----------------------------------------- Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool 1 2 3 4 5 A. CLIPPED Pulled White White over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Pulled Tinged Tinged Over 77 White White Over 80 5% Over 85 Over 90 Pulled pale Pale Over 74 Yellow Yellow Over 77 Over 80 5% Over 85 Pulled Yellow over 90 Pulled Coloured Coloured Over 70 Over 75 Over 80 5% Explanation : "Pulled Wool" means other than limed pulled wool"
SCHEDULE III (See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Tannery Wool (Limed) Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ------------------------------------------ Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool 1 2 3 4 5
(a) Wool other than South Indian Tannery and Aden Type Limed White White over 75 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 80 5% and upto 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 85 Certificate of Agmark Grading over 90 Limed Tinged White Tinged Over 72/1/2 White Over 75 5% Over 80 Over 85 Limed pale Yellow Pale Yellow Over 90 Limed Yellow Yellow 6 Limed Coloured Coloured Over 65 Over 70 Over 75 5% Over 80
(b) South Indian Tannery and Aden Type Wool Tannery White White Over 60 Over 65 Tannery Tinged White Tinged White Over 70 5% Over 75 Over 80 Tannery Pale Yellow Pale Yellow Tannery Yellow Yellow Tannery Coloured Coloured Over 55 Over 60 Over 65 5% Over 70 Over 75
SCHEDULE IV (See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Hill (Pahari) Wool, Greasy Clipped and Pulled Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre -------------------------------------------- Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool 1 2 3 4 5 Hill White White Over 60 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% Pulled Hill White Over 65 and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the Over 70 5% Certificate of Agmark Grading Hill Tinged White Pulled Hill Tinged Tinged White Over 75 White Hill Coloured Coloured Over 55 Pulled Hill Coloured Over 60 5% Over 65 Over 70 7
SCHEDULE V (See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Ginned Wool Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ------------------------------------------ Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool 1 2 3 4 5 Ginned White White Over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% Over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the Over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Ginned Tinged White Tinged White Over 77 Over 80 5% Over 85 Over 90 Ginned Pale Yellow Pale Yellow Over 74 Over 77 5% Ginned Yellow Yellow Over 80 Over 85 Over 90 Ginned Coloured Coloured Over 70 Over 75 5% Over 80
SCHEDULE VI (See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Scoured Wool Grade Colour of Laboratory Maximum Remarks Designation fiber Scoured yield vegetable percentage matter 1 2 3 4 5 Scoured White White Over 95% 5% 1. If the vegetable matter is over 3% Scoured Tinged White Tinged White and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the Scoured Pale Yellow Pale Yellow Certificate of Agmark Grading.
Scoured Yellow Yellow 2. Any Wool having percentage conditioned Scoured Coloured Coloured weight less than the minimum prescribed under column 3 shall not be allowed for export.
(1) "The net weight and the Conditioned weight of the lot in the lots of the scoured wool shall also be indicated in the Certificate of Agmark grading in kg."
(2) "The conditioned weight of a wool lot in kg. shall be declared for a specific country if the packer declared the name of the country to which the lot (wool) is consigned."
IS : 1349-1964 8
SCHEDULE VI-A [See Rules2(dd), 2(r), 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10] ***Fineness grades of Indian Woods Count Range for average fibre diameter in microns 48 S Under 34.40 44 S 34.41 to 36.20 40 S 36.21 to 38.60 36 S 38.61 to 40.80 [Coarser than 36S] Over 40.81 * Schedule I to VI *** IS : 5910-1977
SCHEDULE VII (See Rule 5) Grade Designation Mark to be applied to wool bales shall contain the following design Sr. No. W........................................................................... Place, and Date of Packing ...................................................
(Signature of Inspecting Officer) Grade .................................................................
Colour..................................................................
Yield Percentage...................................................
Count..................................................................
Place and Date....................................................
of Marking (Signature of Inspecting Officer.)
Sr. No. W. ...........................................................
SCHEDULE VIII [See Rule 14(2)] Government Of India Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Department of Rural Development) DIRECTORATE OF MARKETING & INSPECTION Certificate of Agmark Grading No. ........................................................
Certified that the wool bales, the particulars of which are given below have been graded in accordance with the Wool Grading and Marking Rules,1956.
Name of the authorised packer........................................................
Number and date of previous certificate, if any in respect of bales mentioned below :
9 PARTICULARS OF BALES Number of bales :
Description of bales with particulars of grades and marks ...............................................
Agmark Grade ........................................................
Date of Inspection ..................................................
Yield percentage ....................................................
Count ....................................................................
Type ......................................................................
Colour ...................................................................
Agmark label numbers from ........................... to ..............................
Authorised packer's shipping numbers from ..................... to .....................
Authorised packer's marks ..................................
Remarks, if any ...............................................
(Signature of the Officer with stamp) Place :
Date :
Original meant of Customs use.
Duplicate not meant for Customs use.
Office copy.
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SCHEDULE IX [See Rule 14(3)] Government Of India (Ministry of Rural Reconstruction) DIRECTORATE OF MARKETING & INSPECTION (Stamp of the Issuing Office) Conditioning Certificate Test Identification Wool Type : Scoured wool Numbers of bales :
Number of Agmark labels issued :
Total weight :
Gross (Kg.) :
Declared tare (Kg.) :
Net (Kg.) :
Test results
1. Core sample weight : Gms
2. Oven dry weight : Gms
3. Loss : Gms
4. Moisture content : %
5. Regain : %
6. Net weight, Oven dry : Kg. or %
7. Official Regain of % : Kg. or % Invoice weight as per test : Kg. or % Gain : Kg. or % Original net weight : Kg. or 100% Date: (Signature of the Officer with stamp.)
(1) Principal rules published as S.O. 4096 dated 4-9-1975 in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3 (ii) dated 20-9-1975.
(2) First amendment published as S.O. 1671 dated 24-2-1982 in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3 (ii) dated 8-5-1982.
(3) Second amendment published as S.O. 97 dated28-12-1983 in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3 (ii) date 14-1-1984.
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SCHEDULE I
SCHEDULE VII
SCHEDULE VIII PARTICULARS OF BALES
SCHEDULE IX RAW MEAT (CHILLED OR FROZEN) GRADING AND MARKING RULES
SCHEDULE V
SCHEDULE VI I.Layout III.Slaughter Hall V.Vehicular Areas for trucks VI.Drainage VIII.Supply of Water IX.Accessibility for cleaning and maintenance X.Non-acceptable Materials
SCHEDULE VII