Amendment of section 3, Central Act No. 10 of 1955.

After the existing second proviso to sub-section (1A) of section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, the following shall be added, namely:-

"Provided also that the State Government, shall also have the power to order for regulating or prohibiting the production, supply, distribution, imposing stock limits under extraordinary circumstances, which may include famine, price rise, natural calamity or any other situation."