Chapter III Chapter III

Supply and Purchase of Cane

1. (1) The Cane Commissioner may, for purposes of section 15, 16 or 17 by order, require the occupier to furnish in the manner and by the date specified in the order to the Cane Commissioner an estimate of the quantity of cane which will be required by the factory during such crushing season as may be specified in the order.
2. (2) The Cane Commissioner shall examine every such estimate and shall publish the same with such modifications, if any, as he may make.
3. (3) An estimate under sub-section
4. (2) may be revised by an authority to be prescribed.

Register of cane-growers and Cane-growers' Co-operative Society or Societies.

13.

1. (1) The occupier shall maitain in the prescribed form a register of all such cane-growers and Cane-growers' Co-operative Societies, as shall sell cane to that factory.
2. (2) The State Government may make rules for the inspection of such register and the procedure for the correction of any entry therein and obtaining copy of an entry from such register and in making such rules the State Government may also provide for payment of charges for correction and supply of copies.

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Declaration of reserved area Declaration of reserved area.

15. Without prejudice to any order under clause

1. (d) of sub-section

1. (2) of section 19, the Cane Commissioner may, after consulting in the manner prescribed, the occupier and

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The Cane Commissioner may, at any time, if he considers it expedient so to do cancel any order reserving or assigning any area or alter the boundaries of an area so reserved or assigned.

Regulation of purchase and supply of cane in the reserved and assigned areas

1. (1) The State Government may, for maintaining supplies, by order regulate—
   • (a) a distribution, sale or purchase of cane in any reserved or assigned area; and
   • (b) purchase of cane in any area other than a reserved or assigned area.
2. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers such order may provide for—
   • (a) the quantity of cane to be supplied by each cane-grower or Cane-growers' Co-operative Society in such area to the factory for which the area has been so reserved or assigned;
   • (b) the manner in

Power to declare varieties of cane to be unsuitable for use in factories

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification, declare that—
   • (a) cane of any variety grown in any area specified in such notification is unsuitable for use in a factory situated in the said area;
   • (b) ratoon cane of any variety grown in any area specified in such notification is unsuitable for use in a factory situated in the said area; and
   • (c) seed cane of any variety is unsuitable for distribution to cultivators in the area specified in such notification.
2. (2) A notification under sub-section
3. (1) shall be issued not later than the 20th November of the year immediately preceding the crushing season with respect to which such notification is to operate.
4. (3) Where any seed cane of any variety has been declared under sub-section
5. (1) to be unsuitable for distribution to cultivators in that area, the occupier or any other person acting on his behalf or Cane-growers' Co-operative Society shall not distribute seed cane of such variety or varieties to any person to be used by cane-growers or the members of the Cane-growers' Co-operative Societies in any area.
6. (4) Where cane or ratoon cane of any variety has been declared under sub-section
7. (1) to be unsuitable for use in a factory, the occupier or any other person acting on his behalf or a cane-grower or a Cane-growers' Co-operative Society shall not plant cane of any variety or keep ratoon cane of any such variety.