Chapter III Chapter III

PROHIBITIONS ON TRADING IN AND TRANSPORT OF COTTON AND ON COTTON GINNING AND PRESSING FACTORIES

Save as otherwise provided by or under this Act and except with the previous permission of the State Government, no person, other than the State Government or an officer or agent of such Government, authorised by it in this behalf, shall purchase, sell, or store for sale cotton (not being baled cotton) or carry on business therein.

1. (1) No owner or person in charge of a cotton ginning factory shall, except with the previous permission of the State Government, gin or cause to be ginned in his factory any kapas, other than kapas to be ginned on Government account.
2. (2) No owner or person in charge of a cotton pressing factory shall, except with the previous permission of the State Government, press or cause to be pressed ginned cotton into bales, other than such cotton to be pressed on Government account.

No person, other than the State Government or the Head of any Department authorised by the State Government in this behalf, shall, except with the previous permission of the State Government or such Head of the Department, [transport baled cotton] or attempt to transport cotton (not being baled Cotton) from any place in the State to any place outside the State. Where the State Government or the Head of the Department refuses the previous permission in any case, the reasons therefor shall be recorded in writing.