West Bengal Molasses Control (Re-enacting) Act, 1971

No: 25 Dated: Dec, 30 1971

West Bengal Molasses Control Act, 1949

THE WEST BENGAL MOLASSES CONTROL (RE-ENACTING) ACT, 1971

No. 25 OF 1971

    An Act to re-enact the West Bengal Molasses Control Act, 1949.

    in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the West Bengal State Legislature (Delegation of Powers) Act, 31 1971, the President is pleased to enact as follows:-

1. Short, title and commencement:- (1) This Act may be ealied the West Bengal Molasses Control (Re-enacting) Act, 1971.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 1971.

2. Re-enactment of West Bengal A ot XIV of 1949:- The West Bengal Molasses Control Act, 1949, as in force on the 31st day of March, 1971, is hereby re-enacted subject to the modification that for sub-section (4) of section I. the following sub-section shall be, and shall be deemed. always to have been, substituted, namely:—

",(4) It shall remain in force until the 31st day of March, 1974.",

3. Savings and validation:- Notwithstanding anything contained in the West Bengal Molasses Control Act, 1949, or in any other law for the time being in force, no licence, permit, order, direction,, notification, price, proceeding, liability or penalty, punishment, thing or action which is purported to have been granted, made, issued, fixed, commenced, incurred, awarded, done or taken, as the case may be, on or after the 1st day of April, 1971, and before the date of publication of this Act in the Official Gazette, shall be deemed to be invalid or ever to have become invalid merely on the ground that the said Act had expired, and every such licence, permit, order, direction, notification, price, proceeding, liability or penalty, punishment, thing or action shall be deemed to have been granted, made. issued, fixed, commenced, incurred, awarded, done or taken, as the case may be, under the corresponding provisions of the said Act, as re-enacted by this Act.