THE COTTON GINNING AND PRESSING FACTORIES ACT, 1925 [Act, No. 12 of 1925] [AS ON 1956] [This Act has been amended in its application to] [18th March, 1925] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the better regulation of cotton ginning and cotton pressing factories. whereas it is expedient to provide for the better regulation of cotton ginning and cotton pressing factories ; It if hereby enacted as follows :--
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) The owner of every cotton pressing factory shall cause every bale pressed in the factory to be marked in such manner as may be prescribed, before it is removed from the press-house with a serial number and with the mark prescribed for the factory. (2) If any bale is removed from the press-house of any cotton pressing factory without having been marked as required by sub-section (1), the owner of the factory shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....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of the week, to which the returns relate : Provided that the number of bales pressed in any individual factory shall not be published.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.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....of any other State may, be notification in the Official Gazette, bring this section into force in the State. (2) The owner of every cotton ginning factory shall submit to the prescribed authority, within such time and in such form as may be prescribed, weekly returns showing the quantity of cotton ginned in the factory during the preceding week and from the commencement of the season to the end of that week. (3) The State Government shall compile from the weekly returns so submitted, and shall publish in such manner as it thinks fit, a statement showing the total quantity of cotton ginned in the State during the week and from the commencement of the season of the end of the week, to which the returns relate : Provided that the quantity of cotton ginned in any individual factory shall not be published. (4) If default is made in submitting any return as required by sub-section (2), the owner of the factory shall be published with fine which may extend to fifty rupees. (5) The provisions of sub-section (4) of section 5 apply to cotton ginning factories and the returns referred to in sub-section (2) of this section as they apply to cotton pressing factories and the returns.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) Where the owner of a cotton ginning or pressing factory has leased the factory for a period of not less than one month, in the case of a cotton ginning factory, or three months in the case of a cotton pressing factory, and the lessor retains no interest in the management or profits of the factory and notice of the lease has been given by the lessor and the lessee to the prescribed authority, the lessee shall be deemed to be the owner of the factory, from the date of the notice and for the period of the continuance of the lease, for the purposes of section 3, in respect of the registers maintained or to be maintained from that date and for that period, and for the purposes of sections 4, 5{ Ins.by Act 9 of 1942, s.3.}[5A] and 6. (2) On the termination of the lease the lessee shall hand over to the lessor the registers maintained under section 3, and the lessor shall forthwith report to the prescribed authority any default of the lessee in complying with the provisions of this sub-section or in maintaining the registers in accordance with the provisions of section 3. (3) If default is made in handing over any register or making any report as required by this section, the.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) On a transfer of the ownership of a cotton ginning or pressing factory, the transferor shall hand over to the transferee the registers maintained under section 3, and the transferee shall forthwith report to the prescribed authority any default of the transferor in complying with provisions of this sub-section or in maintaining the registers in accordance with provisions of section 3. (2) If default is made in handing over any register or making any report as required by sub-section (1), the transferor or the transferee, as the case may be, shall been punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section.....shall be provided with separate entrances and exits for the bringing in of unsigned and the taking out of ginned cotton respectively, and (b) the factories shall be constructed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the prescribed authority : Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any factory in which only roller gins are used where the number of such gins if not more than four. {Ins.by Act 14 of 1939, s.2.}[(1A) If any cotton ginning factory, whether erected before or after commencement of this Act-- (a) no structural alterations or additions, the construction of which commenced after the 27th day of February, 1939, shall be made so as to minimize the degree of compliance of the factory as a whole with the requirements set forth in clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1), and (b) every structural addition (whether actually attached to any existing structure in the factory or not), the construction of which commenced after the last-mentioned date, shall be constructed in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the prescribed authority : Provided that nothing in this sub-section apply to any factory in which, after any.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionWhere the person guilty of an offence under this Act is a company, every director, manager, secretary and other officer thereof who is knowingly a party to the default shall also be guilty of the like offence and liable to the like punishment.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) No prosecution under this Act shall be instituted except by or with the previous sanction of the District Magistrate or a Chief Presidency Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the State Government. (2) No offence punishable under this Act shall be tried by any Court inferior to that of a Presidency Magistrate or of a Magistrate of the first class.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionThe State Government may,, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules consistent with this Act to provide for all of any of the following matters, namely :-- (a) the forms in which registers, records and returns are to be maintained or submitted, and the inspection of records and registers ; (b) the appointment of the authority to whom and the time within which the returns required by { Subs.by the Act 9 of 1942, s.4, for "section 5".}[sections 5 and 5A] shall be made ; {Cl. (c) rep.by the A.O.1937.See one cl.(c) of s, 12.} (d) the appointment of authorities for the purposes of sections 7, 8 and 9 ; (e) the manner of service of orders made under section 9 ; (f) the powers of entry and inspection which may be exercised by District Magistrates or by any officer specially empowered in this behalf by the State Government ; (g) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed or for which provisions is necessary in order to carry out the purposes of this Act.
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