The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDJA
MINISTRY OF LAW
New Delhi, the 27th June, 1949
ORDINANCE No. XIV OF 1949
AN
further to amend the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946.
WHEREAS an emergency has arisen which makes it necessary further to amend the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946 (XXIV of 1946), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Now, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 42 of the Government of India Act, 1935 (26 Geo. 5, c. 2), the Governor-General is pleased to make and promulgate the 'following Ordinance:—
1. Short title and commencement. — (1) This Ordinance may be called the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Amendment Ordinance, 1949.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of the preamble, Act XXIV of 1946.—In the preamble to the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act),—
(a) after the words "woollen textiles" the words and brackets "raw cotton (including ginned cotton and unginned cotton or kapas) and cotton' seed", Shall be inserted;
1108 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, JUKE 27, 19493. Amendment of section 2, Act XXIV of 1946.—Jn section 2 of the Bftid Act,—
(a) after item (ii) of clause {/;), the folio wing items shall be inserted, namely :•—
"(Ha) r;iw cotton, (lib) cotton H'jerl,";
(6) niter clause (a), the following clause shall be inserted and shall be (.loomed always to Imvc befn inserted, namely: —
"(aa) 'coal' shall include coke and other derivatiTefc of coal; ";
{<;) ;*fter clause (/), tiio foliov.-ing clause shall be inserted, namely: —
"(g) 'raw cotton' nliall include ginned cotton and unginned cotton co' kaput*.''.
C. IUJAGOJJALA(JHARI,
(j-owernor-GewerttZ.
K. V, X. SUNBARAM,