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(1) Every occupier of a factory shall, in the matter of acceptance or purchase of cane for use in the factory, observe the following order of priority, namely:-- (a) the cane cultivated on the land owned or taken on lease by the factory concerned: Provided that the cane cultivated in any land acquired or taken on lease by the factory after the commencement of this Act shall be treated as cane supplied by any other grower mentioned in sub-item (iv) of item (b) for purposes of priority; (b) the cane supplied by the following in the order indicated below:- (i) experimental stations of the Government, (ii) liaison farms, (iii) Observation plots, (iv) cane growers whose names are entered in the register maintained under sub-section (1) of section 13 (hereinafter referred to as ‘registered cane growers’) Provided that from among the registered cane growers, the cane growers from whom the factory was having supply of cane for a maximum number of seasons during the five crushing seasons ending with the crushing season for 1960-61 shall be given preference for supplying cane. 1[XXXX] (2) Notwithstanding anything in sub-paragraph (1) - (a) a co-operative factory may take its requirements of cane from its members first in accordance with its bye-laws and take the balance, if any, preferably from non-member cane growers in the factory zone; (b) a new factory that commences crushing after the commencement of this Act, 2[not being a co-operative factory] may take sixty per cent of its total requirements of cane from its shareholders cultivating cane in the factory zone on a pro rata basis with reference to the amount of share capital paid by each and take the balance from cane growers in the factory zone, each of whom is cultivating cane in not more than one hectare of land (hereinafter referred to as ‘small cane growers'). 3[1-A. Notwithstanding anything in this Schedule, in the case of a co-operative factory, the members of the factory, whether they grow cane within or outside the factory zone, shall be deemed to be registered cane growers for purposes of this Schedule and shall have priority over the non-member registered cane growers in the matter of sale or supply of cane to the factory:] 4[Provided that every such member shall obtain the prior permission of the Cane Commissioner on furnishing him the particulars of cane grown by him outside the factory zone.]