Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subs, ibid S. 3 (3) Sch.. p ar t A, item 49, Cor sub-sections (2) and (3). -The Act came into force in tile former Madhya Pradesh \.)11 the 1st February, 1948, see Commerce and industry Department Notification No. 401-6688- VII, dated the 20til Juuuarv, 1948 issued under sub-section (.'n above and published in the Central Pr~vinces and Berar Gazette, dated the 23rd January,~948, Part I, Page 47 5 Subs by M. P. Act 14 of 1977. S. 2. -. THE MADHYA PRADESH COTTON (STATISTICS) ACf, 1947 a manufacturer, or (ii) (iii) an importer who carries on such business, or a broker or commission agent who contracts for the sale or purchase of cotton for others and stocks cotton on th eir behalf, or (iv) any other person who holds the prescribed quantity of cotton; (f) "year" means a year cornmencing on the 1st clay of September; (g) .,' •• C" " " the expreSSIOns cotton gmrnng tactory an cotton pressing factory" have respectiv~ly. the meanir:gs assigned to them by the Cotton Gmmng and Pressing Factories Act, 1925 (XII of 1925). Q (1) Every owner and every trad er shall each year sub- mit on or before the prescribed date to the Director throws h such officer, if any, as the State Government may by noti- fication from time to time specify, a return in the prescribed form of the quantity of cotton of different varieties m his possession on the last clay of the previous year. (2) Every return submitted under sub-section (1) shall be signed by the person submitting it.