The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 47] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1978/PHALGUNA 3, 1899
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178 'LkiH GAZETTE OF INDIA : tiXTRAOROlNARY [PART I— S E C. 1J entered into by the applicants with the foreign suppli- MINISTRY OF COMMERCE(Import Trade Control)
PUBLIC NOTICE NO. 20—1TC(PN) /78
New Delhi, the 22nd February, 1978
Subject :— Import of Palm oil (including palm kernel oil) under the free licensing schemo : Import Policy
for April 1977—March 1978.
F. No. JPC/3/3/76.—Allention is invited to Ministry of Commerce Public Notice No. 5-ITC(PN)./78, dated the 13th January, 1978, in terms of which it has been provided that no licence for import of palm oil (all types) shall be issued, in future, except to tile extent mentioned in para 3 thereof.
2. The matter has been reconsidered by Government and it has been decided to allow subject to the provisions of paras 3 & 4 hercunder the import of palm oil (oil types) against the following cases of firm contracts as well ;~
(i) Licences issued on or before the dale of issue of orders banning the import of such oils but not covered by an irrevocable letter of credit on the said date ; and
(ii) Applications pending with the licensing authorities on the date of banning, on the basis firm contracts ers at least one week earlier, i.e. on or before tht 6th January, 1978.
3. Every import licence issued in terms of this Public Notice and also those coveted by para 2(i) above, shall bo (deemed to have been) issued, subject to the condition that the goods covered by such licences shall, on importation, be sold to the Central Government or to agencies designated or appointed by the Central Government, if so directed by it and at such pricc(s) as may be fixed by it. Consequently, such of the licence holders/applicants as are not prepared to abide by these conditions should forthwith intimate to the concerned licensing authority their inability to do so and have their licences cancelled or applications withdrawn, aa the case may be.
4. It will be incumbent upon the licence holder of every consignment to which this Public Notice relates to intimate its detailed particulars forthwith to the Ministry of Civil Supplies and Co-operation, New Delhi, about the expected/ actual arrival of the goods concerned and take their prior written permission before the imported oil is sold, directly, to any other person.
K.V, SESHADRI,
Chief Controller of Imports & lixports