Punjab Sugarcane (Regulation of Purchase and Supply) Act, 1953

No: 40 Dated: Nov, 02 1953

The Punjab Sugarcane (Regulation of Purchase and Supply) Act, 1953

Punjab Act No. 40 of 1953

    An Act to regulate the purchase and supply of sugarcane required for use in sugar factories.

It is hereby enacted as follows :-

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Sugarcane (Regulation of Purchase and Supply) Act, 1953.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Punjab.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions. - In this Act unless the context otherwise requires, -

(1) "assigned area" means an area assigned to a factory under this Act :

(2) "Board" means the Sugarcane Control Board;

(3) "cane" means sugarcane intended for use in a factory;

(4) "Cane Commissioner" means the officer appointed by the Government to perform the functions of Cane Commissioner;

(5) "Cane grower" means a person including a tenant who cultivates cane either himself or through members of his family or through hired labour, and who is not a member of a Cane-growers' Co-operative Society;

(6) "Cane-growers' Co-operative Society" means a society registered under Cooperative Societies Act, 1912, one of the objects of which is to sell cane grown by its members;

(7) "Collector" means the Chief Revenue Authority of a district;

(8) "crushing season" means the period commencing on the 15th day of October in any calendar year and ending on the 30th June of the following year;

(9) "factory" means a sugar factory wherein 20 or more workers are working, or were working, on any day of the preceding twelve months and in any part of which any manufacturing process connected with the production of sugar is being carried on or is ordinarily carried on with the aid of power;

(10) "Government" means the Government of the Stat of Punjab;

(11) "occupier of a factory" means the person who has control over the affairs of a factory, and where the affairs of a factory are entrusted to the managing agent, such agent;

(12) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(13) "State" means the State of Punjab.

3. Sugarcane Control Board. - (1) The Government shall establish and constitute a Sugarcane Control Board for the State and ascribe to it such duties and functions in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, as may be prescribed.

(2) The Board shall consist of fifteen members.

(3) The term of the Board shall be three years, provided that the Government may dissolve the Board before the expiry of its term if it is satisfied that it is necessary to do so.

(4) No proceedings of the Board shall be rendered invalid for the mere fact that there was one or more unfilled vacancy in the Board at the time that such proceedings took place.

4. Appointment of Cane Commissioner. - The Government may appoint any officer to be the Cane Commissioner and may also appoint such other staff, body or committee as may be necessary for the performance of any duty or function under this Act.