Permission to factories to mix standard cotton with other standard cotton or any prohibited variety of cotton with standard cotton.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 or any notification issued thereunder, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, permit any standard cotton to be mixed with any other standard cotton or any prohibited variety of cotton to be mixed with any standard cotton in any factory in which cotton is manufactured into yarn or cloth:

Provided that the mixed cotton-

(a) is not made into fully pressed bales, and

(b) is used in such factory exclusively in the manufacture of yarn or cloth.

(2) The owner or person in charge of the factory shall maintain or cause to be maintained- (i) a register containing the daily record of cotton other than standard cotton received into and used in the factory; and

(ii) a register containing the daily record of standard cotton received into and used in the factory.

He shall preserve such registers for a period of not less than two years from the date of the last entry made therein.

(3) The owner or person in charge of the factory shall produce the registers maintained under sub-section (2) when required to do so by the Director of Agriculture, or any person appointed by him in this behalf.