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Coir Industry Act, 1953 Chapter II

Title: The Coir Board

State: Central

Year: 1953

..... (a) growers of coconuts and producers of husks and coir yarn; (b) persons engaged in the production of husks, coir and yarn and in the manufacture of coir products; (c) manufacturers of coir products; (d) dealers in coir, coir yarn and coir products, including both exporters and internal traders; (e) Parliament; (f) the Governments of the principal coconut growing States; (g) such other persons or class of persons who, in the opinion of the Central Government, ought to be represented on the Board. (4) The number of persons to be appointed as members from each of the categories specified in sub-section (3), the term of office, of the procedure to be followed in the discharge of their functions by, and the manner of filling vacancies among, the members of the Board shall be such as may be prescribed. (5) Any officer of the Central Government when deputed by that Government in this behalf shall have the right to attend meetings of the Board and take part in the proceedings thereof but shall not be entitled to vote. ________________________ 1. Coir Board was established on 7-7-1954. Section 5 - Vacancies, etc., not to.....

Coir Industry Act, 1953 Section 4

Title: Establishment and Constitution of the Coir Board

State: Central

Year: 1953

.....capable of representing-- (a) growers of coconuts and producers of husks and coir yarn; (b) persons engaged in the production of husks, coir and yarn and in the manufacture of coir products; (c) manufacturers of coir products; (d) dealers in coir, coir yarn and coir products, including both exporters and internal traders; (e) Parliament; (f) the Governments of the principal coconut growing States; (g) such other persons or class of persons who, in the opinion of the Central Government, ought to be represented on the Board. (4) The number of persons to be appointed as members from each of the categories specified in sub-section (3), the term of office, of the procedure to be followed in the discharge of their functions by, and the manner of filling vacancies among, the members of the Board shall be such as may be prescribed. (5) Any officer of the Central Government when deputed by that Government in this behalf shall have the right to attend meetings of the Board and take part in the proceedings thereof but shall not be entitled to vote. ________________________ 1. Coir Board was established on 7-7-1954.

Coir Industry Act, 1953 Chapter III

Title: Control over the Export of Coir Fibre, Coir Yarn and Coir Products

State: Central

Year: 1953

No coir fibre, coir yarn or coir products shall be exported otherwise than under a licence issued by or on behalf of the Board in the prescribed manner, and the provisions of the Sea Customs Act, 1878 shall have effect as if the provisions made by this section had been made by notification issued under Section 19 of that Act: Provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to any coir product dispatched out of the territories to which this Act extends by post or carried in a passenger's luggage for his personal use: Provided further that the Central Government may exempt from the operation of this section either absolutely or subject to specified conditions, the export of any coir fibre, coir yarn or coir product to any foreign settlement bounded by India. Note:--Relaxation of the operation of the provision --

Coir Industry Act, 1953 Section 12

Title: Control of Export of Coir Fibre, Coir Yarn and Coir Products

State: Central

Year: 1953

No coir fibre, coir yarn or coir products shall be exported otherwise than under a licence issued by or on behalf of the Board in the prescribed manner, and the provisions of the Sea Customs Act, 1878 shall have effect as if the provisions made by this section had been made by notification issued under Section 19 of that Act: Provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to any coir product dispatched out of the territories to which this Act extends by post or carried in a passenger's luggage for his personal use: Provided further that the Central Government may exempt from the operation of this section either absolutely or subject to specified conditions, the export of any coir fibre, coir yarn or coir product to any foreign settlement bounded by India. Note:--Relaxation of the operation of the provision --

Coir Industry Act, 1953 Complete Act

Title: Coir Industry Act, 1953

State: Central

Year: 1953

.....coir yarn and coir products Section14 - Payment of proceeds of cess to the Board Section14A - Grant by the Central Government to the Board Section15 - Constitution of Fund Section16 - Borrowing powers of Board Section17 - Accounts and audit Chapter V Section18 - General control over acts and proceedings of the Board Section19 - Report and returns Chapter VI Section20 - Penalties Section21 - Offences by companies Section22 - Previous sanction of Central Government for prosecution Section23 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section24 - Power to delegate Section25 - Suspension of operation of Act Section26 - Power of Central Government to make rules Section27 - Power of Board to make by-laws

Coir Industry Act, 1953 Preamble 1

Title: Coir Industry Act, 1953

State: Central

Year: 1953

THE COIR INDUSTRY ACT, 1953 [Act, No. 45 of 1953] [23rd December, 1953] PREAMBLE 1[An Act to provide for the establishment of a Board for the development of the Coir Industry and for that purpose to levy a customs duty on coir fibre, coir yarn and coir products exported from India and for matters connected therewith."] BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:-- ________________________ 1. Substituted for the original long title, by the Coir Industry (Amendment) Act, 1964 (25 of 1964), Section 2 (16-6-1964).

Coir Industry Act, 1953 Section 13

Title: Imposition of a Duty of Customs on Export of Coir Fibre, Coir Yarn and Coir Products

State: Central

Year: 1953

(1) With effect from such date as may be specified by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette, there shall be levied and collected as a cess for the purposes of this Act a duty of customs on all coir fibre, coir yarn and coir products which are exported1[at such rate not exceeding two rupees per quintal] as the Central Government may, by the same or a like notification from time to time, fix. (2) The cess levied under sub-section (1) shall be in addition to any other duty leviable under the Indian Tariff Act, 1934 or any other law for the time being in force and shall be collected by such agencies and in such manner as may be prescribed. ________________________ 1. Substituted for the words "at such rate not exceeding one rupee per hundred weight", by Customs Duties and Cesses (Conversion to Metric Units) Act, 1960 (40 of 1960), Section 9 (1-10-1960).

Coir Industry Act, 1953 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1953

.....means the fibre extracted from the husk of the coconut; (d) "coir products" means mats and mattings, rugs and carpets, ropes and other articles manufactured wholly or partly from coir or coir yarn; (e) "coir yarn" means yarn obtained by the spinning of coir; (f) "export" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to take out of the territories to which this Act extends by land, sea or air to any place outside India other than a country or territory notified in this behalf by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette; (g) "Fund" means the Coir Fund referred to in section 15 -; (h) "husks" mean" coconut husks, both raw and retted; (i) "member" means a member of the Board; (j) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act. CHAPTER 02: COIR BOARD SECTION 04: ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTION OF THE COIR BOARD (1) With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, there shall be established 3 for the purposes of this Act a Board to be called the Coir Board. (2) The Board shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid. having perpetual succession and.....

The Kerala Coir Workers Welfare Fund Act 1987 1 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1987

.....(1) of section 9 ; (c) 2 ["coir products" means mats and mattings, rugs and carpets, fibre, yarn, rubberised coir products and other articles manufactured wholly or partly from fibre, yarn or pith and includes such products of coir backed with PVC, rubber or any similar backing materials; " ;] (d) "coir worker" means any person who is employed for wages to do any work in connection with the various processes in coir industry, and who gets his wage directly or indirectly from the employer, dealer or producer of coir products and includes any person employed by or through a contractor or through an agent and depends mainly on coir industry for his livelihood, 3 [and includes a floating worker or any person] employed in coir industry, whom the Government may by notification in the Gazette from time to time declare to be a coir worker for the purposes of this Act; 4 ["Explanation.-If any question arises as to whether a person is or is not a coir worker for the purpose of this Act, the matter shall be referred to the concerned Project Level Advisory Committee of trade unions in coir industry constituted for such Coir Project area for the purpose for decision and an appeal shall.....

The Kerala Coir Workers Welfare Fund (Amendment) Act, 1998 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1998

.....substituted, namely:- "(c) "coir products" means mats and mattings, rugs and carpets, fibre, yarn, rubberised coir products and other articles manufactured wholly or partly from fibre, yarn or pith and includes such products of coir backed with PVC, rubber or any similar backing material;"; (ii) in clause (d),- (a) for the words "and includes any person", the words "and includes a floating worker or any person" shall be substituted; (b) for the Explanation, the following Explanation shall be substituted, namely:- "Explanation,-If any question arises as to whether a person is or is not a coir worker for the purpose of this Act, the matter shall be referred to the concerned Project Level Advisory Committee of trade unions in coir industry constituted for such Coir Project area for the purpose for decision and an appeal shall lie to the Board against the decision of the Project Level Advisory Committee;"; (iii) in clause (f),- (a) after the words "of husks or fibre", the words "or pith" shall be inserted; (b) the words "and the Kerala State Co-operative Coir Marketing Federation and the Kerala State Coir Corporation Ltd; shall be added at the end; (iv) for.....