रजिस्ट्री से डी० 221
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The Gazette of India
प्रसाशरण
EXTRAORDINARY
भाग II-खण्ड 3--उपखण्ड ( ii )
PART II- Section 3-- Sub- section ( ii)
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नई दिल्ली, सोमवार , विसम्बर 11 , 1967 / अप्रहायण 20 , 1889
No. I
] NEW DELHI , MONDAY , DECEMBER 11 , 1967 / AGRAHAYANA 20 , 1889
इस भाग में भिन्न पृष्ठ संख्या वो जाती है जिससे कि यह अलग पंकलन के रूप में रखा जा सके ।
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation.
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi , the 11th December 1967
S.O. 4448. Whereas the Central Government is of opinion that it is necessary and expedient for the development of the export trade of India, in exercise of the powers con- ferred by section 6 of the Export ( Quality Control and Inspection ) Act , 1963 ( 22 of 1963 ) , to subject to quality control and inspection prior to its export , the dried fish men- tioned in Annexure I to this notification:
And whereas the Central Government has formulated the proposals specified below for the said purpose and has forwardel the same to the Export Inspection Council , as required by sub - rule ( 2 ) of rule 11 of the Fxport ( Quality Control and Inspection ) Rules , 1964 ;
Now, therefore , in pursuance of the said sub - rule , the Central Government hereby publishes the said proposals for the information of the public likely to be affected thereby .
2. Notice is hereby given that any objections or suggestions with respect to the said proposals may be forwarded , within thirty days of the date of publication of this notifica- tion , to the Export Inspection Council , ' World Trade Centre ' 14 / 1 - B . Ezra Street ( 7th floor ) , Calcutta - 1 .
Proposals
( 1 ) To notify that the dried fish specified in Annexure I shall be subject to quality control and inspection prior to its export;
(2 ) to recognise the specifications as set out in Annexure II to this notification as the standard specifications for the said commodity;
(3 ) to specify that the type of inspection detailed out in the draft Export of Dried Fish ( Quality Control and Inspection ) Rule 1967 set out in Annexure III to this notifica- tion which the Central Government proposes to make under section 17 of the Act , shall be the type of inspection applicable in respect of that commodity ; and
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(4) to prohibit the export , in the course of international trade , of such dired fish unless the same is accompanied by a certificate issued by the Export Inspection Agency, Madras , established under section 7 of the Export ( Quality Control and Inspection ) Act , 1963 ( 22 of 1963 ) to the effect that the said commodity conforms to the standard specifica- tions as recognised under sub - paragraph ( 2 ) and is export -worthy.
3. Nothing in this notification shallhall apply to the export by sea, land or air of samples of dried fish to prospective buyers , provided that cach such sample does not weigh more than 2 kilograma .
ANNEXURE I
Varieties of dried fish
1. Seer ( Cybium)
2. Angila ( Cybium )
3. Balaya ( Thynnus )
4. Parawa (Caranx)
5. Katta (Chorinemus )
6. Koduwa ( Sciaena sp .Pseudosciaena )
7. Lavaya ( Sarranus )
8. Spratts ( Stolephorus )
9. Valainetholi ( Stolephorus )
10. Kooney (Penaeus )
11. Prawns without Shell (Penaeus , Matapenacus , Parapenaeopsis )
12. Prawns with Shell ( Penaeus , Metapenaeus , Parapenacopsis)
13. Shark ( Carcharinus , Sphyrana , Pristis , Galeocerda )
14. Maduwa (Trygon , Myliobatidae , Rhynchobatus , Rhinobatus )
15. Anguluwa (Arius )
16. Anguluwa (Arius) (Tuticorin)
17. Hurulla (Sardinella sirm)
18. Soodaya ( Sardinella gibbosa )
19. Morello ( Hemirhamphus )
20. Venganawa ( Pellona )
21. Parawa Small ( Caranx )
22. Kumbalawa ( Rastrelliger kanagurta )
23. Thondaya Dried ( Gr . I) ( Dussumeria )
24. Chevva Keelam ( Lethrinus ; Aprion; Lutianus ; Gaterina ; and Pristipoma).
25. Jeela ( Sphyraena)
26. Valaikandam ( Chirocentrus )
27. Thalapath (Histiophorus )
28. Magracheri ( Prepared from Carcharinus Sp . )
29. Moothilla ( Elacate Sp ) .
30. Pulunno ( Lactarius Sp . )
31. Thondaya Gr . II ( Dussumeria Sp . ) (Wet Salted)
32. Thondaya Salted ( Dussumeria Sp . )
33. Bolan (Decapterus Sp . Caranx Sp . )
34. Kolli Exocactus Sp. ) (Unsalted)
35. Kolli ( Exocactus Sp . ) (Salted)
36. Salaya (Sardinella longiceps ) (Oil Sardine of Malabar)
37. Salova ( Sardinella gibbosa , Sardinella fimbriata, Sardinella albella, Coilia Sp . ) (Sardine of East Coast ) ANNEXURE II
Specifications for Dried Fish
Sxc.8(11)].
General:-Dried fish shall be wholesome . No pit - cured fish or fish oozing with water ("Pachhapad" "Semi -dried " "Half- dried", " Seft" dried") or having 'red' (bacteria) or mould attack (fungal attack ) or maggot - ridden or insect infested fish or re-conditioned fish shall be permitted for export.
Variety
Standards of quality
Method of cure in brief
Other remarks Serial No.
Size
Smell
Dryage
Scientific Name (Species)
Appearance
Foreign matter
8
2
6
10 I
3
4
7
5
Nil
1 Seer
Cybium
Above 37.5cm
Moisture not more than 40 %
Shall not be that of rancied or decomposed smell
Fish flesh shall be firm and shall not come off in shreds on examination,
Colour shall be brown or it shall be cha- racteristic of well dried good Seer fish.
Cured with salt as Keelam only . It may be with or without head, or in case of Seer fish from the Malabar coast in split open form.
Nil
Do.
Do.
Do.
2 Angila
Below 37-50m
Well dried moisutre not more than 40%
Nil
Do.
Dark coloured
3 Bakya
Thynnus
Well dried moisture not more than 40 %
Freshly cured smell shall not give any de- composed odour
Above 25 cm. with without head. or
Caranx
Do.
Do.
Do.
Brown coloured
4 Parawa
Do.
Above 25 cm. with or without head.
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2
I
3
6
10
8
5
9
7
5 Katta
Chorinemus
Nil
Brown coloured
Freshly cured smell shali not give any deco- mposed odour
Well dried moisture not more than 40%
Above 30 cm. with or without head .
Cured with salt as Keelam only . Itmay be with or without head , or in case of Seer fish from the Malaba coast in split open form .
6 Koduwa
Do.
Sciaena sp.-
Do.
Do.
Do.
Pseudosc-
Well dried. moisture not more than 40 %
Above 60 cm. with or without head.
7 Lavaya Serranus
Do.
Do.
De .
Do.
Well dired moisture not more than 40%
25 cm. andabove with or without head..
8 Sprat's
Above
Stolepho- rus
Sun- dried and not salt-cured
White or dull ог blackish 00-
Well dried moisture not more than 20
coloured loured
Wholesome dired fish smell and not pungent
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Broken bits of Spratts orany other fish or mixture of other та- rieties of small fish shali not be more than 5% Sand . which is inherent to Spratis, shall be allowable upto я гра- ximum of 7 % - Stolepho-
9 Valaine- tholi
Above 4 cm
Well dried. Moisture not more than 20 %
coloured ог
blackish colo-
ured
White or dull
Wholesome dried fish smelt and not pungent
Spratts without head as caught in gill nets . Sun -dried and not salt cured .
SEC.8(il)]
Broken bits of Spratts or any other fish or mix- ture of other varie- ties of small fish, shall not be more than 5%
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
1. Кооnеу
Sun - dried and not salt-cured
Below 3 cm
Penaeus (Small) Acetes
Orange to pink
in colour
Above 2.5 cm
Fresh & not pungent
Moisture not more than 30 %
!!! II Prawns without Shell
Boiled in brine , heads and shells removed , and pulp dried
Sand and other beach shelis or molluses shall not be present .
Penacus , Metap- nacus , Рагарепае opsis
Heads, eyes , shells , tails , of prawns ; broken pieces of prawns ; pulp and shell dust shall add to tare
Sun-dried
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Репасиз ,
12 Prawns with Shell Metape- naeus, Parapenae- opsis.
Broken pieces of prawns and loose bits not to exceed 5 %
Nil
13 Shark
as Salt cured fillets or as Keelams
White or whitish
on the flesh
side
Well dried . Moisture not more than 40 %
Carcharinus Sphyrna Pristis Galeocerda
Characteristic smell of Shark (lightly pun- gent)
:
As pieces being held together at the candal or can be in the form of Allets
Do.
Do.!
Do.
1/ Maduwa
Do.
Do.1
Trygon, Mylioba- tidae, Rhyncho- batus, Rhinoba tus
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I
2
10
6
8
3
9
4
7
5
Arius
Nil
15 Anguluwa
Whitish to dull
brown
Fresh flavour ofa cured fish
Above 30 cm
Well dried Moisture not more than 40 % 7
Cut open longi- tudinally, entrails removed and fish split open, or Kee- lams salted . and dried. With or With- out head .
Arius
Do.'
Do.
Keelams pre-
Do.
Do.1
ferred 16 Anguluws (Tuticorin) ]
Above 20 cm
17 Hurulla
White or Brown
Sardinella Sim
Above 7 cm
Well dried. Moisture not more than 40 %
Flesh should be¹ firm and it shall not come off in shreds Salt-cured , in the round form without guts
Only that of a freshly cured fish. No other amonical ог foul odour shall be pre- j sent .
Do.'
Do.
Do.
Do.
18 Soodaya
Do. ]
Sardinella gibbosa
Above 7 cm
Cured with salt in the round form.
19 Morello
Do.!
Do.
Do.
Do.
Hemirham- phus
15 to 30 cm (Beak to tail)
Salted & dried in the round form.
Above 6 cm
Do.
Do.
Do.
20 Venganawa Pellona
White to Yellow ]
Cured with salt in the round form and well dried . without guts
Do ,
Do.
Do.
Do.
21 Parawa Small
Caranx (Small)
White to light
brown
Below 25 cm
Fresh
22 Kumba- lawa
Above 10 cm
White to Brown
Rastrelliger kanagurta
Well Dried. Moisture not mor than 40 %
Guts shall be removed . ured w th salt and dried .
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There shall be no salt and sand adheringto the fish Well dried.
Light pungent smell but fres-
Above 7 cm.
Dussumeria Sun-dried in the round form and not salted
Moisture not more than 20 %
23 Thoniaya Dried (Gr . I)
Sand separated from the fish shall to go make the tare .
SEC.8(11)]
hly dried smell otherwise . No. decomposed smeli to be detected.
Broken bits of Spratts or any other fish or mixture of other varieties of sm- all fish , shall not be more than 5%.
Nil
Lethrinus;
24 Chevva Keelam
Above 25 cm.
Light Yellow to dark brown .
Fresh cured Welldried . flavour; no bad Mositure not odour should be persent. more than 40 %.
Cured with salt as Kellam and Dried . May be with or without head.
Aprion; Lutianus ; Gaterina; & Pristipoma
Lark coloured
Nil
Sphyraena
25 Jeela
Split open or Keelams
Above 22.5 cm.
Well dried . Moisture more than 40 % . not
Freshly cured smell . Shall not give any decom- posed odour .
ct Keelams open longitu- dinally. Fish split and entrails removed shall be preferred .
Valaikandam Chriocentrus
Fresh
26
Above 10 cm .
Whitish to dull brown.
Well dried. Moisture под more than 40 % -
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Thalapath Histiophorus Cured in the cut
27
White or Brown.
Freshly cured flavour .
Moisture not more than 40 % .
Above 30 cn. in the whole fish form or as preces as the case may be .
open form or as Keelam or strips or as fillets can be with or with out head ; as a whole fish or in pieces of the fish is of a very large size.
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2
6
8
3
I
4
5
7
9
F
28 Magracheri
Above IC cm .
Moisture not more than 40 % .
White to ash grey or flesh coloured (light pink).
Prepared from Carcharinus Sp .
Characteristic smell or Salted Shark (lightly pungent)
Dressed flesh pieces of Shark fish without bone or skin or fin or tail and cured with salt and dried .
cured
20 cm .
Elacate Sp .
29 Moothilla
Freshly smell.
White to ash grey .
Mositure not more than 40 % .
Salt cured and dried in the split pen form or as Keelam or strips with or without herd) .
Above 3 cm .
30 Tutunno
Moisture nct mor han 40 % .
Fresh & not pungent .
Lactarius Sp.
Characteristic colour of the fish i.e. , light dark coloured .
Salted and cured in the round form. gats re- meved only in the case of bigger fish of size anove Is crm . and may be cured in the split open form also .
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cured
Above ? cm .
Green fiavour .
Moisture not more than 400% .
Light dark coloured.
Dussum ria Sp .
31 Thondaya Gr. II (Wet salted:
Cured with salt 10 the round farm and dried .
D..
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Moisture not more than 40 % .
32 onday alted and Dried .
33 Boian
Above 7 cm .
Moisture not more than 40 % .
Freshly cured fish flavour .
White to Ligin: dark.
Decap.erus Sp.
Cured with sal : the round form and Griei . in
Caranx Sp .
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not Moisture more than 4000-
Light blue Dark .
Above 8 cm .
Koli Unsalted
Exocaetus ১৮ .
the round Co.m. Dried sun in the whole
Wholesome dried fish smell and not pungent Do.
35 Kollu Salteli
Cured with sath Above in the salt in the 8 cm . round form and dried.
30 Salava Oil Sardinella Sardine of longiceps . Malabar .
Cured with salt Alove and dried, with 7 cm . head but with- out guts .
Sardinella
in the form and dried . Cured with salt Above round 7 eт .
27 Salaya Sardine of East Coast Sardineila gibbosa , fimbriata , Sardinella albella , Coilia Sp .
Do.
По .
Mositure more than 40 % .
SEC.3(ii)]
Greenish Brown .
Mositure more than 40 % . Dot Green cured fish flavour and emitting charac- teristic smell of fish cil .
Do.
Du .
D. Mositure more than 40 % .
*NOTE- The mositure content , except in the case of varieties mentioned at Serial Nos . 8. 9. 10, 11. 12 and 23 , shall be taken at 45 % during the period Ist June to 30th November .
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ANNEXURE III
Draft rules proposed to be made under section 17 of the Export ( Quality Control and Inspection) Act , 1963 .
1. Short title and commencement- ( 1 ) These rules may be called the Export of Dried Fish ( Quality Control and Inspection ) Rules , 1967 .
( 2) They shall come into force on
2. Definitions . In these rules , unless he context otherwise requires-
(a) 'Agency' means thethe Export Inspection Agency , Madras established under section 7 of the Export ( Quality Control and Inspection ) Act , 1963 ( 22 of 1963 ) .
(b) Dried fish means ( i ) any of the trade varieties of the dried fish as specified in the Schedule to these rules ; ( ii ) any other trade varieties of the dried fish, which the Central Government may , by notification in the Official Gazette , add to the Schedule to these rules .
3. Basis of Inspection -Inspection of dried fish intended for export shall be carried out with viewto seeing that the dried fish conforms to the specifications recognised by the Central Government under section 6 of the Export ( Quality Control and Inspection ) Act, 1963 ( 22 of 1963 ) .
4. Procedure for Inspection .- ( 1 ) An exporter intending to export dried fish shall submit an application to the Agency , or to an officer of the Agency authorised in this behalf by the Agency , giving particulars of the consignment intended to be exported , to enable it to examine such consignment or cause the same to be examined to see whether the same conforms to the specifications . referred to in rule 3 .
(2) Every application under sub - rule ( 1 ) shall be made not less than twenty tour hours before the anticipared time of despatch of the consignment from the godown.
( 3 ) On receipt of the application referred to in sub - rule ( 2 ) , the Agency shall inspect the consignment and satisfy itself that the consignment complies with the requirements of the recognised specifications . The exporter shall provide all necessary facilities to the Agency to enable it to carry out such inspection .
(4) If on such inspection of the consignment , the Agency is satisfied that the same conforms to the recognised specifications and has been packed and marked according to these rules , it shall issue a certificate declaring the consignment as export - worthy .
5. Packaging for Export.-( 1 ) The dried fish shall be packed in sound condition in leaf Inats tied by a single coir rope . The bundle shall have only one knot which may be on the top or side of the bundle . The bundles shall be over - wrapped with serviceable gunnies or hessian cloth and properly stitched . When gunny bags are used , the original seams of the gunnies shall be inwards .
(2) Any. packing , which is superior to the packing specified in sub- rule ( 1 ) , maybe adopted by the exporter subject to the prior approval of the Agency .
(3 ) Each package of any variety of dried fish shall contain a net quantity of 50.80 kg . (112 1b . ) of fish .
( 4) The total weight of the packing materials shall be uniform so as to ensure that the gross weight of the packages are uniform .
(5) The exporter shall ensure that in all packages passed for export , the coir rope knot on the bundle is securely tied by means of a strong jute or hessian twine through which a lead Seal shall be placed by the Agency.
(6 ) The exporter shall stencil their marks on the two broad sides of every package with indelible ink . The gross and net weight of each package and the name of the variety of fish packed shall also be marked on each package .
6. Place of Inspection ( 1 ) Inspection for the purpose of these rules shall be carried out at the exporter's premises which shall be well lighted and maintained in sanitary and hyglenic conditions . Necessary facilities for weighing, packing and inspection shall be provided at the premises by the exporter
(2) In addition to the inspection at the premises mentioned in sub - rule ( 1 ) , the Agency may exercise such supervision at the port of shipmentbefore loading , as it may consider necessary to carrying out the purpose of these rules .
7. Inspection fecs -The fees chargeable for purpose of examination and issue of certi . fiates by the Agency under section 7 shall be calculated at the rate of rupee one for every Rs . 100.00 or fraction thereof the F.O.B. value of the goods and shall be paid to it for the inspection of dried fish under these rules .
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8. Appeal-Any exporter aggrieved by the refusal of the Agency to issue a certificate under sub - rule (4 ) of rule 4 may , within forty eight hours of the receipt of the com- munication of such refusal by him , prefer an appeal to a panel of experts , consisting of not less than three persons , cosconstituted for the purpose by the Contral Government .
( 2) The decision of the panel of experts on such appeal shall be final .
THE SCHEDULE
(See rule 2 )
1. Seer ( Cybium )
2. Angila ( Cybium)
3. Balaya ( Thynnus )
4. Parawa ( Caranx)
5. Katta ( Chorinemus )
6. Koduwa ( Sciaena sp - Pseudosciaena )
7. Lavaya ( Serranus )
8. Spratts ( Stolephorus)
9. Valainetholi ( Stolephorus )
10. Kooney ( Penaeus )
11. Prawns without Shell ( Penaeus . Metapenaeus , Parapenacopsia )
12. Prawns with Shell ( Penaeus , Matapenaeus , Parapenaeopsis )
13. Shark ( Carcharinus , Sphyrna , Pristis , Galeocerda )
14. Maduwa ( Trygon , Myliobatidae , Rhynchobatus , Rhinobatus )
15. Anguluwa ( Arius )
16 Anguluwa ( Arius )
(Tuticorin)
17. Hurulla ( Sardinella sirın ) .
18. Soodaya ( Sardinella giblosa )
19. Morello ( Hemirhamphus )
20. Venganawa ( Pellona )
21. Parawa Small ( Caranx )
22. Kumbalawa ( Rastrelliger kanagurta )
23. Thondaya Dried ( Dussumeria ) (Gr. I)
24. Chevva Keclam ( Lethrinus : Aprion ; Lutianus ; Gaterina ; and Pristipoma ) 25. Jeela ( Sphyraena )
26. Valaikandam ( Chirocentrus )
27. Thalapath ( Histiophorus )
28. Magracheri ( Prepared from Carcharinus Sp . )
29. Moothilla (Elacate Sp . )
30. Pulunno ( Lactarius Sp . )
31. Thondaya Gr. II ( Dussumeria Sp. )
(Wet Salted)
32. Thondaya Salted and Dried ( Dussumeria Sp . )
33. Bolan ( Decapterus Sp . , Caranx Sp . )
34. Kolli ( Exocactus Sp . )
(Unsalted)
35. Kolli (Exocaetus Sp . )
(Salted)
36. Salaya ( Sardinella longiceps ) (Oil Sardine of Malabar )
37. Salaya ( Sardinella gibboss , Sardinella fimbriata , sardinella albella . Coilia Sp. ) (Sardine of East Coast )
[No. 60 ( 10 ) Exp . Insp /67 . ] S. RAMACHANDRAN , Jt. Secy .
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