Purchase of cane in assigned area

(1) A cane-grower of a Cane-growers' Cooperative Societies in an assigned area may sell by the date prescribed in this behalf to the occupier of the factory to which the area is assigned, cane grown by the cane growers or by the members of such Cane-growers Cooperative Society, as may be, not exceeding the quantity prescribed for such grower or cane growers' Cooperative Society. (2) The agent of a factory shall enter into an agreement with a cane grower or with a Cane-growers Cooperative Society, as the case may be, in such form, by such date and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed, for the purposes of purchasing the cane offered in accordance with sub-section (l). No person other than the agent aforementioned shall purchase or enter into an agreement to purchase cane grown by members of a Cane-growers Cooperative Society from any other person except in accordance with such agreement. (3) Except with the permission of the Government, cane grown in an assigned area shall not be purchased by any person other than the agent of the factory for which such area has been assigned. (4) It shall be competent for the prescribed authority to specify any area within the assigned area of a factory, the entire cane of which area the agent of the said factory shall be bound to purchase, and the cane growers or cane growers' Cooperative Society shall be bound to sell to the said agent.