Returns.

(1) The owner or person incharge of every cotton ginning factory shall submit to the prescribed authority, in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed form, monthly returns showing the quantity of cotton ginned in the factory during the preceding month and from the commencement of the season to the end of that month. (2) The owner or person incharge of every cotton pressing factory shall submit to the prescribed authority, in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed form, weekly returns showing the total number of bales of cotton pressed during the preceding week and from the commencement of the season to the end of the week, and the approximate average net weight of the bales pressed in that week. (3) If default is made in submitting any return as required by sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) the owner or person incharge of the factory shall be punishable with the fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. (4) where the owner or person incharge of a cotton ginning or cotton pressing factory has notified to the prescribed authority that the work of ginning cotton or bales in the factory has been suspended, it shall not be necessary for him to submit returns under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) until such work has been resumed.