The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NO. 222] NEW DBLHI, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1966/KARTIKA
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OF FOOD, AGRICULTURE, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND
COOPERATION
(Department of Food)
ORDER
New Delhi, the 8th November 1966
G.S.R. 1725.—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955), the Central Government hereby makes the following Order further to amend the Madhya Pradesh Rice Procurement (Levy) Order, I960, namely:—
1. This Order may be called the Madhya Pradesh Rice Procurement (Levy) Second Amendment Order, 1966.
2. It shall come into force on 15th November, 1966. 3. In the Madhya Pradesh Rice Procurement (Levy Order. 1P60,— (1) in clause 2,—
(i) sub-clause (a) shall be omitted; (ii) for sub-clauses (b) and (c), the following sub-clauses shall respectively be substituted, namely:—
856 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, [PART II-SEC. 5 (i)) •'(cj "Purchase Officer" means the Food Corporation of India, established under the Food Corporations Act, 1964;";(2) in clause 3, for the words "controlled price,'1 wherever they occur, the words "price payable under this order, referred to in clause 3A" shall be substituted;
(3) clause 3A shall be substituted by the following clauses, namely:—
"3A. Fixation of price.—Where a person is required to sell rice under ciause 3 to the Purchase Officer, the maximum price fixed lor that variety and grade in an order made under section 3 of the Essential Com- modities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955) namely, the Madhya Pradesh Hice and Kankl (Wholesale and Retail Price Control) Order, 1964 shall be deemed to be the price payable under this Order.
3B. Calculation 0/ price on result of analysis.—(1) The Purchase Officer shall as far as possible in the presence of the miller or the dealer or his agent, cause to be taken and sealed three representative samples of the rice delivered under clause 3, hand over one sample to the miller or dealer or his agent and send the other two samples to a laboratory established by the Food Corporation of India for the purpose; one of the two samples shall be analysed in the laboratory and the other retained therein.
(2) The price payable for the stock of rice shall be calculated on the basis of the result of the analysis which shall be communicated to the miller or the dealer, as the case may be
(3) Where any miller or dealer does not agree with the result of the analysis referred to In sub-clause (2), the miller or the dealer, as the case may be, shall send due intimation of the same to the Purchase Officer so as to reach him within a week of the receipt by the miller or the dealer, as the case may be, of the result of the analysis and thereupon the Purchase Officer shall arrange to get the other sample retained in the laboratory analysed after previous intimation to the miler or the dealer, as the case may be, about the date and time fixed for such analysis and the miller or the dealer, if he so desires, may depute his representative to be present at such analysis.
(4) The result of the second analysis referred to In sub-clause (3) shall be binding on both the parties and the price payable for the stock of rice shall be finally calculated on the basis of that result.".
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R. BALASUBRAMANIAN, Jt. Secy.