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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Coffee Act, 1942

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https://sooperkanoon.com/act/51265

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Preamble1 - Coffee Act, 1942
Section1 - Short Title, Extent and Duration
Section2 - Declaration as to Expediency of Union Control
Section3 - Definitions
Section4 - Constitution of the Board
Section5 - Incorporation of the Board
Section6 - Vesting of Property in the Board
Section6A - Consultation with the Board
Section7 - Chairman, Committees, Staff and Agents
Section8 - Salary and Allowances of Chairman
Section8A - Vice-chairman
Section9 - Chief Coffee Marketing Officer, Secretary and Other Staff
Section10 - Dissolution of the Board
Section11 - Duty of Customs (Repealed)
Section12 - Omitted
Section13 - Payment of Proceeds of Duty to the Board (Repealed)
Section14 - Registration of Owners of Coffee Estates
Section15 - Power of State Government to Make Rules
Section16 - Fixation of Prices for Sale of Coffee
Section17 - Sale of Coffee in Excess of Free Sale Quotas
Section18 - Sale of Coffee, How Made
Section19 - Storage of Sale of Coffee on or from Unregistered Estate
Section20 - Export of Coffee
Section21 - Re-import of Coffee Exported from India
Section22 - Free Sale Quota
Section23 - Returns to Be Made by Registered Owners
Section24 - Licences for Sale of Uncured Coffee
Section25 - Surplus Coffee and Surplus Pool
Section26 - Sales of Coffee by the Board
Section27 - Coffee to Be Cured in Licensed Curing Establishments
Section28 - Licensing of Curing Establishments
Section29 - Information to Be Supplied to the Board in Connection with Curing
Section30 - Separate Funds to Be Maintained by the Board
Section31 - General Fund
Section32 - Pool Fund
Section32A - Power of the Board to Make Donation to the Gandhi National Memorial Fund
Section33 - Power to Borrow
Section34 - Payments to Registered Owners
Section35 - Failure to Register
Section36 - Contraventions of Sections 16, 17 and 18
Section37 - Unlicensed Curing Establishment
Section37A - Contravention of Section 23(1)
Section38 - False Returns
Section38A - Contravention of Section 25
Section38B - Powers to Seize Coffee Withheld from Inclusion in Surplus Pool
Section39 - Obstruction
Section39A - Offences by Companies
Section40 - Cognizance of Offence
Section41 - Power of Board to Determine Amount of Coffee Sold by an Estate
Section42 - Control by the Central Government
Section43 - Appeals to the Central Government
Section44 - Inspection of Records
Section45 - Accounts of the Board
Section46 - Inspection of Records of the Board and Obtaining of Copies
Section47 - Contracts
Section47A - Bar of Legal Proceedings
Section48 - Power of the Central Government to Make Rules
Section49 - Repeal of Act Xiv of 1935
Section50 - Repeals and Savings

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