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Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946, (Maharashtra) Preamble

Title: the Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1946

.....by the trade at the end of a season are at present collected on a voluntary basis. It has been found that these statistics are incomplete and unsatisfactory as a number of ginning and pressing factories and dealers in cotton do not furnish the required information. The importance of correct statistics of stock of cotton held in the country in deciding any problem relating to cotton, particularly during the post-war period, is self-evident with a view to collecting accurate statistics of stock of cotton. Government consider it to be expedient to make it compulsory for the owners of cotton ginning and pressing factories and all persons trading in cotton to declare the stock of Indian raw cotton held by them on 31st August of each year. It is necessary to give officers engaged in the collection of statistics powers of entry and inspection to enable them to check the accuracy and veracity of returns. - Statement of Objects and Reasons. __________________________ 1. This Act was extended to and shall by virtue of such extension be in force in the rest of the State of Maharashtra (vide Maharashtra 4 of 1961. section 2). 2. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Bombay.....

Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1946

..... (f) the expressions "cotton ginning factory" and cotton pressing factory have the meanings assigned to them by the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925, (XII of 1925). 3. Delivery of yearly returns of cotton :- (1) Every trader and every owner shall on or before 15th September each year submit to the Director, through such officer as the 1[State] Government may by notification in the Official Gazette from time to time specify, a return in the prescribed form of the quantity of cotton in his possession on the last day of the previous year: Provided that the 1[State] Government may, in any year by notification in the Official Gazette, fix any later date for the submission of returns. (2) very return submitted under sub-section (1) shall be signed by the person submitting it. 4. Right of access, inspection and search :- The Director and any person authorised by him in writing in this behalf shall have access to every relevant document, book of account or other record in the possession of a trader or owner and may at any reasonable time with or without notice to the trader or owner, as the case may be, examine and take copies of, or extracts from, the.....

The Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1946

.....; (f) the expressions "cotton ginning factory" and "cotton pressing factory" have the meanings assigned to them by the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925. *************************************************************************************** 1. Sub-section(2) was substituted for the original, by Mah. 4 of 1961, s. 4. 2. This word was substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950. 3. The words "State of Bombay" were omitted by the Bombay Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1956. *************************************************************************************** SECTION 03: DELIVERY OF YEARLY RETURNS OF COTTON (l) Every trader and every owner shall on or before 15th September each year submit to the Director, through such officer as the '[State] Government may by notification in the Official Gazette from time to time specify, a return in the prescribed form of the quantity of cotton in his possession on the last day of the previous year : Provided that the 1[State] Government may, in any year by notification in the Official Gazette, fix any later date for the submission of returns. (2) Every return.....

Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946, (Maharashtra) Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1946

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context :- (a) "cotton" means Indian raw cotton (including seed-cotton, lint and fly); (b) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture1: (c) "owner" means the owner of a cotton ginning factory or a cotton pressing factory; (d) "trader" means a person other than an owner, carrying on the business of buying or selling cotton for the purposes of gain or profit and includes - (i) a manufacturer, or (ii) an importer, who carries on such business, (iii) a broker or commission agent who contracts for the sale or purchase of cotton for others and stocks cotton on their behalf; (e) "year" means a year commencing on the 1st day of September; (f) the expressions "cotton ginning factory" and "cotton pressing factory" have the meanings assigned to them by the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925. _____________________ 1. The words "State of Bombay" were omitted by the Bombay Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subject) Order, 1956.