The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 9] NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1984/PAUSA 17, 1905
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5 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY {PART IT—SEC. 3(ii) 2. Definitions:—In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires;MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
(Department of Commerce)
(a) "commission agent" means a commission agent having in the customary course of business as such agent authority either to sell tea, or to consign tea for the purpose of sale or to buy tea;
(b) "dealer" means a dealer in tea. and includes a broker, commission agent, manufacturer and a warehouse keeper;
(c) "State Order" means any Order issued by any State Government or Union Territory Administration under the provisions of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955), in relation to lea and in force for the time being;
(d) "tea" means the plant Camellia Sinensis(L) O. Kuntze as well as all varieties of the product known commercially as tea made from leaves of the said plant, including green tea;
(e) "warehouse keeper" means a person, who owns or maintains a? warehouse wherein tea is stored for the purposes of sale either by auction or otherwise;
(f) words and expressions, used but not defined herein shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Tea Act 1953 (29 of 1953).
3. Registration of dealers.—Notwithstanding any- thing contained in any State Order, alter the ex- piration of a period of 30 days i'rom the coming tnto force of this Order, no person shall, if the stocks of tea in his possession exceed 1,000 kilograms, carry on business as a dealer unless he is registered as such in accordance "with the provisions of a State Order.
4. Returns.—Every dealer shall furnish fortnightly returns to such authority as may be specified by the State Governments in this bchoif by notification in the Official Gazette in respect of such stocks of tea- held by him as are in excess of 1,000 kilograms.
ORDER
New Delhi, the 7th January, 1984
S.O. 9(E) .--Whereas the Central Go\fcrnment is of opinion that it is necessary and expedient so to do for maintaining supplies, of tea, an essential ronv mod;ty, and lor securing its equitable distribution ;
Now. therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955) the Centra] Government hereby makes the following Order, namely:—
5. State Orders to apply.—The provisions of the State Orders shall apply in respect of any matter for which no provision has been specifically made in this Order.
6. Repeal and Sawing.—(1) The Tea (Resist™lion of Dealers and Declaration ol' Stocks) Order, H"S3, is hereby repealed.
(2) Provided that any Order isued and any action taken under the Tea (Repis'tatinn of DenL-rs ami Declaration of Stocks) Oi-der, 19R3 slrili be deeded to have been issued or taken under the provisions oF this Ordc.