Act Info:
(1) The owner if every cotton pressing factory shall submit to the prescribed authority, within such time and in such form as may be prescribed, weekly returns showing the total number of bales of cotton pressed during the preceding week and from the commencement of the season to the end of the that week, and the approximate average net weight of the bales pressed in that week.
(2) The State Government shall compile from the weekly returns, and shall publish in such manner as {Subs. by the A.O.1937 for "the G.G.in C.may direct".} [it thinks fit], a statement showing the total number of bales pressed in the State during the week and from the commencement of the season to the end of the week, to which the returns relate :
Provided that the number of bales pressed in any individual factory shall not be published.
(3) If default is made in submitting any return as required by sub-section (1), the owner of the factory shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
(4) Where the owner of a cotton pressing factory has notified to the prescribed authority that the work of pressing bales in that factory has been suspended it shall not be necessary of the owner to submit returns under sub-section (1) until such work has been resumed.
Explanation.--In this section "season" means the period notified in this behalf by the State Government in the Official Gazette.