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Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Section 3

Title: Prescription of Grade Designation

State: Central

Year: 1937

.....by weight,number or otherwise to be included in each covering; (f)providing for the payment of any expenses incurred in connection with themanufacture or use of any implement necessary for the reproduction of a gradedesignation mark or with the manufacture or use of any covering or label markedwith a grade designation mark 3 [or with measures for the control ofthe quality of articles marked with grade designation marks including testing ofsamples and inspection of such articles or with any publicity work carried outto promote the sale of any class of such articles;] 4 [* * *] (g)providing for the confiscation and disposal of produce marked otherwise than inaccordance with the prescribed conditions with a grade designation mark; 5 [(h)any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed.] 6 [7 (3)]Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soonas may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is insession, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one sessionor in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the sessionimmediately following the session or the successive.....

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Section 5

Title: Penalty for Counterfeiting Grade Designation Mark

State: Central

Year: 1937

Whoever counterfeits any grade designation mark or has in his possession any die, plate or other instrument for the purpose of counterfeiting a grade designation mark shall be punishable1[with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and fine not exceeding five thousand rupees]. _________________________ 1. Substituted for the words "with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees" by Act No. 76 of 1986, w.e.f. 15.4.1987.

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Section 4

Title: Penalty for Unauthorised Marking with Grade Designation Mark

State: Central

Year: 1937

Whoever marks any scheduled article with a grade designation mark, not being authorised to do so by rule made under Section 3, shall be punishable1[with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months and fine not exceeding five thousand rupees]. _________________________ 1. Substituted for the words "with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees" by Act No. 76 of 1986, w.e.f. 15.4.1987.

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Section 5B

Title: Power to Prescribe Compulsory Grade Designations in Respect of Certain Articles

State: Central

Year: 1937

(1) Where the Central Government is of opinion that it is necessary in the public interest or for the protection of consumers that any scheduled article or class of articles shall not be sold or distributed except after such article or class of articles is marked with the grade designation mark, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make a declaration to that effect. (2) Any notification issued under sub-section (1) shall specify the area or areas in relation to which the notification shall have effect. (3) Where a notification under sub-section (1) is issued in respect of any area or areas, no person shall sell or offer to sell or distribute or offer to distribute any scheduled article or class thereof in the area or areas except in accordance with the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under. (4) Whoever contravenes the provisions of this section shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months and fine not exceeding five thousand rupees.

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Complete Act

Title: Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937

State: Central

Year: 1937

Preamble1 - AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) ACT, 1937 Section1 - Short title and extent Section2 - Explanations Section3 - Prescription of grade designation Section3A - Powers of entry, inspection and search Section3B - Powers of the authorised officer to seize agricultural produce Section4 - Penalty for unauthorised marking with grade designation mark Section5 - Penalty for counterfeiting grade designation mark Section5A - Penalty for selling misgraded articles Section5B - Power to prescribe compulsory grade designations in respect of certain articles Section5C - Institution of prosecution Section6 - Extension of application of Act Schedule1 - SCHEDULE

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1937

.....within entry 49 of List I of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. The State Government of Jammu and Kashmir have agreed to the extension of the Act to that State. The proposed Bill seeks to extend the Act to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.-Gaz. of Ind., 19-4- 1960, Pt. II, S. 2, Ext., p. 332. Act No. 76 of 1986.- The Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 provides for the grading and marking of agricultural and other allied commodities with the objectives of making avail- able quality agricultural produce including horticulture and livestock produce to the consumers. Under this Act, the Central Government has been authorised to make rules fixing grade designation to indicate the quality of any scheduled article, denning the quality indicated by every grade designation; specifying grade designation mark to represent particular grade designation; authorising interested parties to grade; specifying conditions regarding manner of marking, packaging etc. and providing for the confiscation and disposal of produce marked otherwise than in accordance with the prescribed conditions with a grade designation mark. The insignia used for grading is 'AGMARK'. Grading under.....

Agricultural Produce (Grading & Marking) Act, 1937 Complete Act

State: Meghalaya

Year: 1937

.....officer of a Gazetted rank or of equivalent rank, authorised by the Central Government, may, if he has reason to believe that any provision of this Act or the rules made thereunder has been, or is being, contravened, enter any premises at any reasonable time and make necessary inspection of, and search for, the agricultural produce in relation which such contravention has been, or is being made. (2) Every authorisation made under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be a warrant referred to in section 93 of the code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. 3B. Powers of authorised officer to seize agricultural produce (1) An officer authorised under sub-section (1) of Section 3-A may seize and detain any agricultural produce in relation to which an offence under this Act or the rules made thereunder is being, or appears to have been committed, or which is intended or likely to be used in the commission of such offence; Provided that where any agricultural produce seized under this sub-section is subject to speedy or natural decay, the officer so authorised may dispose of such produce in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) The provisions of Section 102 of the code of Criminal.....

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Section 2

Title: Explanations

State: Central

Year: 1937

.....or context: (a) "agricultural produce" includes all produce of agriculture or horticulture and all articles of food or drink wholly or partly manufactured from any such produce, and fleeces and the skins of animals; (b) "counterfeit" has the meaning assigned to that word by Section 28 of the Indian Penal Code; (c) "covering" includes any vessel, box, crate, wrapper, tray or other container; (d) "grade designation" means a designation prescribed as indicative of the quality of any scheduled article; (e) "grade designation mark" means a mark prescribed as representing a particular grade designation; (f) "quality", in relation to any article includes the state and condition of the article; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "scheduled article" means an article included in the Schedule;1[* * *] (i) an article is said to be marked with a grade designation mark, if the article itself is marked with a grade designation mark or any covering containing or label attached to such article is so marked; 2[(j) an article is said to be misgraded if, (i) the article is not of the quality prescribed for the grade designation with which it is.....

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 Preamble 1

Title: Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937

State: Central

Year: 1937

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) ACT, 1937 [Act, No.1 of 1937] [24th February, 1937] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the grading and marking of agricultural1[and other] produce. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the grading and marking of agricultural1[and other] produce. It is hereby enacted as follows: _________________________ 1. Inserted by Act No. 13 of 1942, w.e.f. 24.2.1937.

Designs Act, 1911 [Repealed] Repealing Act 1

Title: Designs Act, 2000

State: Central

Year: 1911

.....in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER 1. PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Designs Act, 2000. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. 2. Definitions In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - (a) "article" means any article of manufacture and any substance, artificial, or partly artificial and partly natural; and includes any part of an article capable of being made and sold separately; (b) "Controller" means the Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks referred to in section 3; (c) "copyright" means the exclusive right to apply a design to any article in any class in which the design is registered; (d) "design" means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or.....