Bare Act
The Karnataka Sugarcane (Regulation of Purchase and supply) Act, 2013
General201321 sections
This Act regulates the purchase, supply, and pricing of sugarcane in Karnataka, applying to sugarcane growers and sugar factory operators. It establishes a Sugarcane Control Board and an expert committee to decide additional sugarcane prices over the federally determined minimum price, based on factory revenue realization. To protect farmers from exploitation, the legislation mandates transparent, digitized, and automatic weighment systems at sugar mills. Furthermore, the Act guarantees timely payments directly into farmers' bank accounts in two distinct stages, regulates suitable sugarcane varieties, ensures basic amenities at buying yards, and prescribes strict penalties for compliance violations.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. Short title and commencement
- 2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
- 3. Sugarcane Control Board.
- 4. Functions of the Board.- The functions of the Board shall be,-
- 4A. Declaration of Additional Sugarcane Price of Sugarcane
- 4B. Legislature.
- 4C. Committee for calculation of Revenue realisation
- 4D. Factors to be taken into consideration by the Board for deciding additional
- 5. Power to declare varieties of cane to be un-suitable for use in factories.- The
- 6. Prohibition of distribution of certain varieties of seeds
- 7. Purchase of Sugarcane from the reserved area
- 8. Weighment.-
- 9. Payment to sugarcane growers.-
- 10. Penalty
- 11. Cognizance of Offence
- 12. Cane Development and Director of Sugar and no court inferior to that of a Magistrate of First Class, shall try any such offence.
- 13. Offences by Companies, Firms and Partnerships:- Where the occupier of a Sugar
- 14. Commissioner of Cane Development and Director of Sugar to be public servant.-
- 15. Code, 1860.
- 16. Power to make rules.
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