Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946

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    "title": "Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946",
    "short_title": "Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946",
    "act_number": "Bombay Act No. 27 of 1946",
    "act_year": 1946,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"cotton\" means Indian raw cotton (including seed-cotton, lint and fly);\n(b) \"Director\" means the Director of Agriculture [***] ;\n(c) \"owner\" means the owner of a cotton ginning factory or a cotton pressing factory ;\n(d) \"trader\" means a person other than an owner, carrying on the business of buying or selling cotton for the purposes of gain or profit and includes-\n(i) a manufacturer, or\n(ii) an importer, who carries on such business,\n(iii) a broker or commission agent who contracts for the sale or purchase of cotton for others and stocks cotton on their behalf;\n(e) \"year\" means a year commencing on the 1st day of September;\n(f) the expressions \"cotton ginning factory\" and \"cotton pressing factory\" have the meanings assigned to them by the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925 (XII of 1925).",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Delivery of yearly returns of cotton.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Right of access inspection and search.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Use of returns or information.",
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            "content": "(a) compiling statistics required by the Indian Central Cotton Committee constituted under the Indian Cotton Cess Act, 1923 (XIV of 1923);\n(b) such purposes in respect of the matters enumerated in List II of the Seventh Schedule to the [Constitution] as the [State] Government may direct.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Restriction on publication of returns and information.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Penalties.",
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            "content": "(a) wilfully refuses or without lawful excuse neglects to deliver a return under section 3, or\n(b) wilfully delivers or causes to be delivered any such return which he knows to be false, or\n(c) refuses to answer or wilfully gives a false answer to any question or enquiry necessary for obtaining any information for the purposes of this Act, or\n(d) impedes the right of access to a relevant document, book of account or other record, or the right of entry conferred by section 4,",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Penalty for improper disclosure of information or returns.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Cognizance of offences.",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Protection for acts done in good faith.",
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            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Offence by corporation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Exemptions.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prescribing the form in which a return under section 3 shall be delivered, and\n(b) regulating the exercise of the right of access to books of account, records and documents and the right of entry conferred by section 4.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj031",
        "Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 27 of 1946",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1946",
        "Short Title": "Bombay Cotton (Statistics) Act, 1946",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}