Maintenance of registers

(1) The owner of every cotton ginning factory shall maintain at the factory a ginning register in the form and manner prescribed, setting forth a daily record of all cotton ginned in the factory, the names of the persons for whom and the dates on which the cotton has been ginned, the quantity ginned for each person and such other particulars as may be prescribed. (2) The owner of every cotton pressing factory shall maintain at the factory a press register in the form and manner prescribed, setting forth a daily record of the number of bales pressed in the factory, the serial number of each bale, the name of the person for whom it has been pressed and such other particulars as may be prescribed. (3) Any ginning register or press register maintained under this section shall, when required by any person appointed by the Central Government in this behalf, be produced for inspection and the owner shall furnish to the Indian Central Cotton Committee, if required by it in writing, a copy of the entry in any press register maintained at the factory relating to any specified bale. (4) Any register maintained under this section shall be preserved for a period of two years after the last entry therein. (5) (a) in any factory any register required by this section to be maintained is not maintained in any form, if any, prescribed for the purpose; (b) any entry in any such register is proved to be false in any material particular; (c) any such register is destroyed before the expiration of the period referred to in sub-section (4); the owner of the factory shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or if he has previously been convicted of any offence under this sub-section, to fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. (6) If the owner fails to produce any register, or to furnish a certified copy of any entry when required so to do under sub-section (3), or furnishes a certified copy of any entry knowing or having reason to believe such copy to be false, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or, if he has previously been convicted of any offence under this sub-section, to fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.