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10(1) (2) (3) 11(1) (2) (3) 12 13(1) (2) 14(1) (a) intentionally fails to maintain correctly any document or register, or (b) Intentionally commits any breach of any condition or duty imposed under this Act, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees for every such failure or breach. Any person contravening any of the provisions of Act or any rule made there under, for which no penalty is otherwise provided shall be punishable with fine, which may extend to two thousand rupees. The Cane Commissioner may order the occupier of any factory to submit to him on or before any specified date, an estimate of the quantity of cane intended to be purchase for his factory during any particular crushing season. On receipt of an estimate, the Cane Commissioner shall cause the same to be submitted to the Sugarcane Control Board for their approval. The Sugarcane Control Board shall be competent to confirm, modify or reject the estimate, and in case of its not being rejected, to assign the area from which the cane may be purchased, on such terms and conditions as it may deem fit. If the Sugarcane Control Board is of the opinion that a survey of any area is necessary for the purpose of assigning it to a factory, the Cane Commissioner shall cause such survey to be made and report the result to the Sugarcane Control Board. The cost of such survey shall be payable by the occupier of such factory. Every survey mentioned hereinbefore shall be made by an officer authorized neither by the Cane Commissioner nor in the manner prescribed. Every person owning or occupying land in any area in respect of which a survey is being made shall afford to the officer making the said survey such assistance and facilities for making the said survey as may be necessary. Any amount due from the occupier of a factory in respect of any survey shall be recoverable from such occupier as an arrear of land revenue. The Government, may on the recommendation of the Sugarcane Control Board, declare unsuitable for all or any factory cane of any variety grown in any area specified in such notification and no agent shall be competent to purchase any cane declared unsuitable for his factory. The occupier of a factory or any other person acting on his behalf shall not distribute seed cane of any variety to any person to be used by cane-growers or the members of Cane- growers Cooperative Societies in any area if the same has been declared under this Act, to be unsuitable for the factory. The occupier of a factory, or any other person acting on his behalf shall not plant cane of any variety declared under this Act, to be unsuitable for the factory. A cane-grower of a Cane-growers' Cooperative Societies in an assigned area may sell by the date prescribed in this behalf to the occupier of the factory to which the area is assigned, cane grown by the cane growers or by the members of such Cane- growers Cooperative Society, as may be, not exceeding the quantity prescribed for such grower or cane growers' Penalty for contravention Not other wise provided for Estimate of quantity of cane required by factory Survey of Area Powers to declare Varieties of cane to be unsuitable For use in factories Prohibition of distribution of Certain kinds of Seed Purchase of cane in assigned area (2) (3) (4) 15(1) 16(1) (2) 17(l) (2) 17-A 18(l) (2) Cooperative Society. The agent of a factory shall enter into an agreement with a cane grower or with a Cane-growers Cooperative Society, as the case may be, in such form, by such date and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed, for the purposes of purchasing the cane offered in accordance with sub-section (l). No person other than the agent aforementioned shall purchase or enter into an agreement to purchase cane grown by members of a Cane- growers Cooperative Society from any other person except in accordance with such agreement. Except with the permission of the Government, cane grown in an assigned area shall not be purchased by any person other than the agent of the factory for which such area has been assigned. It shall be competent for the prescribed authority to specify any area within the assigned area of a factory, the entire cane of which area the agent of the said factory shall be bound to purchase, and the cane growers or cane growers' Cooperative Society shall be bound to sell to the said agent. If the cane-growers or Cane-growers Cooperative Society or Societies in the assigned area are not willing to enter into agreement to supply, or fail to supply the requisite quantity of cane the agent may, after giving the prescribed notice to the Cane Commissioner, purchase the balance of the cane required by him from outside the assigned area. The agent of a factory for the purposes of which an area has been assigned shall maintain a register in the prescribed form and manner. The Government may prescribe the procedure for- (a) The correction of entries in, and the addition of new entries to such register. (b) The payment of the costs in connection with such correction or addition and the manner in which such costs shall be realized; and (c) The supply, on payment, of copies of entries in the register. The State Government may, after consultation with the Sugarcane Control Board, impose a tax, not exceeding three annas per maund, on the purchase of cane by or on behalf of a sugar factory, and when a tax is so imposed it shall be notified in the official Gazette, and shall be charged, levied & collected in the manner prescribed; (provided that a notification imposing the tax issued during crushing season shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, in operation from the commencement of such season). All sums due as the aforementioned tax, and not paid by the due date, shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue. The Government, if satisfied that a factory has exported out of India, any quantity of sugar manufactured by it, may refund to such factory whether prospectively or retrospectively the amount of tax imposed on and paid by it under section 17 in respect of the cane purchased by it and utilized in manufacturing the quantity of sugar so exported. No prosecution shall be instituted under this Act except upon a complaint made by a District Magistrate. On the application of a person accused of an offence under this Act, the District Magistrate may compound such offence by Purchase of cane outside the assigned area Maintenance of Register Tax on the purchase of cane Prayer to refund Tax on cane utilized for manufacturing sugar exported out of India. Institution of Proceedings (3)