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Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act, 1985 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1985

.....the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS -In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Authority" means the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority established under Section 4-; (b) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Authority; (c) "export" means taking out of India by land, sea or air; (d) "exporter" means a person registered as an exporter of Scheduled products under Section 12-; (e) "member" means a member of the Authority and includes the Chairman; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (g) "processing" in relation to Scheduled products includes the process of preservation of such products such as canning, freezing, drying, salting, smoking, peeling or filleting and any other method of processing which the Authority may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf; (h) "regulations" means regulations made under this Act ; (i) "Scheduled product" means any of the agricultural or processed food products included in the Schedule. SECTION.....

Bombay Highways Act, 1955, (Maharashtra) Section 59

Title: General Provision for Punishment of Offences

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1955

Whoever contravenes any provision of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offence, on conviction, be punished - (a) for a first offence with fine which may extend to 1[five hundred rupees]. (b) for a subsequent offence with fine which may extend to 2[one thousand rupees]. NOTES Statement of Objects and Reasons.- The Bombay Highways Act is enacted in the year 1955, nearly 40 years back. Therefore, the provisions obtaining in the said Act relating to punishment for offences and penalty for the violation of the provisions of the said Act have become rather outdated and ineffective. Opportunity has been taken to increase the ceiling of penalty laid down under the Act, to make such punishments deterrent.-[Mah. Act No. 37 of 1999.] ____________________ 1. These words were substituted for the words "fifty rupees" ibid., Section 13(a). 2. These words were substituted for the words "two hundred rupees", ibid., Section 13(b).

Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

COTTON GINNING AND PRESSING FACTORIES ACT, 1925 COTTON GINNING AND PRESSING FACTORIES ACT, 1925 12 of 1925 18th March, 1925 "The Indian Cotton Committee which was appointed in 1917 in Chapter XVI of their Report recommended certain measures including the licensing of cotton ginning and pressing factories, to prevent such malpractices as damping, mixing and adulteration, which are injurious to the quality and reputation of Indian cotton. The recommendations of the Committee, however, involved an excessive amount of official interference. The object of the present Bill is to put the trade in a position to protect itseif by providing for the marking of bales and the record of ownership, and by providing further that unmarked bales are not tenderable in fulfilment of a contract, if marked bales are demanded by the purchaser. The Bill also makes provision for the maintenance of register for statistical returns, for the use of correct scales and weights, and for the structural improvement of ginning and pressing factories. The Bill is based on the recommendations of the Indian Central Cotton Committee, and is suppelmentary to the Cotton Transport Act, 1923. " -Gazette of.....