{ "id": 16029, "slug": "chhattisgarh-rice-procurement-levy-order-2005", "title": "Chhattisgarh Rice Procurement (Levy) Order 2005", "short_title": "Chhattisgarh Rice Procurement (Levy) Order 2005", "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. F 4-7/food/2005/29", "act_year": 2005, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Chhattisgarh", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "Chhattisgarh Rice Procurement (Levy) Order 2005", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"State\" means State of Chhattisgarh;\n(b) \"State Government\" means Government of Chhattisgarh;\n(c) \"Director\" means Director of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Chhattisgarh;\n(d) \"Collector\" means the Collector of the district and includes any other officer authorised by the State Government to perform all are any of the functions of the Collector under this order>y\n(e) \"Miller\" means the owner or other person in charge of a rice mill;\n(f) \"Rice Mill\" means the plant and machinery with which, and the premises including precincts thereof in which, or in any part of which rice milling operation is carried on;\n(g) \"Rice\" means any variety of rice produced or manufactured by dehusking paddy in a mill worked by power, and includes rice equivalent of paddy held in stock;\n(h) \"Purchase Officer\" means such authority or person as may be appointed by the Food Corporation of India;\n(i) \"Enforcement Officer\" means an officer of the State Government not below the rank of Food Inspector or a police officer not below the rank of the Sub Inspector;\n(j) \"Custom Milling\" means conversion of paddy procured under price support scheme by State Government into rice by millers as per norms fixed by Government of India for each Kharif Marketing Season.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Levy on Rice.", "chapter": null, "content": "(ii) Every miller shall sell rice to the purchase officer as defined in clause 4 only after completion the custom milling of the paddy in accordance with an agreement.\n(iii) Millers shall sell only specified quality or rice to the purchase officer as per the norms fixed by the Government of India for each Kharif Marketing Season.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Process of Levy Procurement.", "chapter": null, "content": "(ii) On receipt of declaration from the millers, the purchase officer shall purchase the declared quantity of mentioned rice in prescribed format by millers. It shall be the duty of the miller to calculate and give the information of correct quantity of levy rice for sale in prescribed format according to the custom milled rice deposited by him to Food Corporation of India or Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited.\n(iii) Enforcement officer and Purchase officer shall ensure that sale of only appropriate quantity of levy rice by miller takes place according to the custom milled rice deposited by miller to Food Corporation of India or Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Restrictions on milling by miller.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Purchase price.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Acceptance of Levy.", "chapter": null, "content": "(ii) The purchase officer shall release analysis result for calculation of the price and payment after the confirmation of the stock being as per the uniform specification.\n(iii) In case of dispute where the miller does not agree with the result of analysis referred to sub-clause (ii), the purchase officer shall as far as possible in the presence of the miller or his agent cause to be taken and sealed three representative samples of the rice delivered under clause 3, handover one sample to the miller or his agent and send two other samples to District Lab. of Food Corporation of India. Out of these two representative samples, one shall be analysed under the supervision of Deputy Manager (Quality Control) of Food Corporation of India associating with the Assistant Food Officer or Food Inspector of the concerned districts.\n(iv) The result of the second sample analysis referred in sub-clause (iii) shall be binding on both the parties and the price payable for the stock of rice shall be finally calculated on the basis of that result.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Inspection and supervision over purchase officer.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Exemption.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Penalty.", "chapter": null, "content": "(ii) If any miller contravenes any of the provisions of this Order, then whole or any part of any stock of rice, together with the packages and covering thereof shall be forfeited to the State Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Powers Entry, Search and Seizure etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) enter, with such assistance as may be necessary any rice mill or other premises where he has reason to believe that rice is produced or stocked;\n(ii) ask of any person all necessary questions;\n(iii) examine any books or documents or call for the submission of such returns relating to the stocks of custom milled rice and other rice held by miller.\n(iv) search and so far may be necessary for the purpose, detain any person or seize rice found in such person's possession in respect of which he has reason to believe that contravention of any of the provisions of this Order has been, is being or is about to be committed and thereafter take or authorise the taking of all measures necessary for the production of stocks, so seized in a court and for their safe custody, pending such production.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Maintenance of records.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Appeal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Duty to comply with Orders and directions.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Repeal and Savings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "Last Updated 21st October, 2019 [cg135]", "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. F 4-7/food/2005/29, dated 17.06.2005", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "2005", "Short Title": "Chhattisgarh Rice Procurement (Levy) Order 2005", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Chhattisgarh" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }