Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Declaration of factory Zone -(1) The Government shall have the power to declare by notification, any area as factory zone for the purpose of supply of fresh Oil Palm fruit bunches to the factory specified for, the purpose or purchase of Oil Palm FFB and any other Oil Palm product by the factory. (2) Where a particular area is declared as Factory Zone under sub- section (1) the Oil Palm growers in that area shall supply the fresh fruit bunches from Oil Palm plantations grown in that area only to the factory, to whom the factory zone is attached and to none else. (3) Where a particular factory zone is declared under this section the occupier of the factory in the concerned factory zone and for which the zone is declared, shall buy all the Oil Palm FFB produced by all the Oil Palm growers or their Co-operative Societies in that factory zone as are offered for sale by them at a price which shall not be less than the price fixed by the authority empowered to fix the price under this Act. 2[11A. Market Intervention Scheme – (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 11, where the Government notifies any Market Intervention Scheme approved by the Government of India for any specified period for all the factory zones in the State, and designates an agency or agencies for the purpose, such designated agency may buy specified quantities of Oil Palm F.F.Bs produced by the Oil Palm growers or their co-operative societies in all the zones as are offered for sale by them at a price fixed by the Government under the Market Intervention Scheme. (2) The designated agency may supply the said Oil palm F.F.Bs to the occupiers of the factories in the concerned factory zones and the occupier of the factory shall buy all the Oil Palm F.F.Bs so supplied by the designated agency, which shall be deemed to be an Oil Palm growers in the factory zone under the provisions of this Act, in relation to such supply and buying.]