Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
6(1) (2) 7 (1) (2) (3) 8 (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. The Board shall be consisting of fifteen members. 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. 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. 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. Where the occupier of a factory is a firm or a company or other association any one of its partners, or directors or members may be prosecuted and punished under this Act for any offence for which the occupier of the factory is punishable. Provided that such firm or company or association may give notice to the Cane Commissioner that it has nominated one of its partners or directors or members to be the occupier of the factory for the purposes of this Act and such individual shall be deemed to the occupier for the purposes of this Act until further notice canceling his nomination is received by the Cane Commissioner. No cane shall be purchased for a sugar factory unless its occupier has, in the prescribed form sent a notice of such intention to the Cane Commissioner, nominating one or more person as agents for making such purchases, and no agent shall be changed without prior notice in writing to the Cane Commissioner Any person appointed as agent under sub-section (l) shall deposit as security a sum of rupees one thousand in cash or Government Promissory notes and no person shall be deemed to have been appointed as agent until such deposit is made and he has been given a license in the manner prescribed. No person shall act as purchasing agent under this Act, unless he has been licensed as such in the prescribed manner. No person other than a purchasing agent shall be employed by an occupier of a factory to do any work in connection with any transaction for the purchase of cane within the State. A license shall not be granted to any person under such-section (l) unless such person has paid the prescribed deposit or furnished the prescribed security and the Cane Commissioner may subject to rules made in this behalf, in case of any breach of the conditions of the license, order that the deposit paid or security furnished in respect of such license shall be forfeited to Government or shall not be returned before the prescribed period or that the whole or any portion of such deposit or security shall be paid to any person who has suffered any loss owing to any misconduct or default of such licensee. The agent or agents of a sugar factory shall maintain an office in one or more places within the State as may be required by the Cane Commissioner, and shal maintain such accounts and submit such returns and statements as may be prescribed. If an occupier or an agent: - Sugarcane Control Board Appointment of Cane Commissioner Determination of "occupier" for purposes of this Act, Appointment Of an agent Licensing of Purchasing Agent Duties of an Agent (2)