The Goa Oil Palm (Regulation of Production and Processing) Act, 1998

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    "title": "The Goa Oil Palm (Regulation of Production and Processing) Act, 1998",
    "short_title": "The Goa Oil Palm (Regulation of Production and Processing) Act, 1998",
    "act_number": "(Goa Act 23 of 1998)",
    "act_year": 1998,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa Oil Palm (Regulation of Production and Processing) Act, 1998",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Commissioner\" means the Oil Palm Commissioner appointed under section 5;\n(b) \"Committee\" means the Goa Oil Palm Project Management Committee constituted under section 3;\n(c) \"Factory\" means any premises including the precincts thereof or any part in which any manufacturing process connected with the processing of oil palm FFB is carried on with the aid of mechanical power;\n(d) \"Factory zone\" means an area assigned to a factory under section 7;\n(e) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa;\n(f) \"Inspector\" means the Oil Palm Inspector appointed under section 6;\n(g) \"occupier of the factory\" means the person who, or the authority which has the ultimate control over the affairs of the factory and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a Secretary, Manager, Managing Director, Executive Director or Chief Executive Director, such Secretary, Manager, Managing Director, Executive Director or Chief Executive Director shall be deemed to be the occupier of the factory;\n(h) \"oil palm\" means the palm of the genus Elaeis and includes the species Elacis guineensis, malanocoss, or corozo oleifera and hybrids of these species;\n(i) \"oil palm FFB\" means the unprocessed oil palm fresh fruit bunch and includes its loose form also;\n(j) \"oil palm grower\" means a person who cultivates oil palm, whether by himself or by his own servants or by hired labour or by members of his family or by his tenants and includes Oil Palm Grower's Co-operative Society, but not a member thereof, and a company as defined in section 3 of the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act 1 of 1956);\n(k) \"oil palm grower's co-operative society\" means a society registered under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (Maharashtra Act No. XXIV of 1961), as in force in the State of Goa;\n(l) \"oil palm product\" means any product obtained directly from the oil palm and it includes palm oil, palm kernel, palm kernel cake, palm fatty acids, oil palm seeds and oil palm seedlings and palm kernel oil;\n(m) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Constitution and term of office of the Goa Oil Palm Project Management Committee.",
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            "content": "(i)\nSecretary to the Government incharge of Agriculture\n-\nChairman.\n(ii)\nSecretaries to the Government incharge of Industries and\n\t\t\t\tFinance\n-\nMembers.\n(iii)\nDirector of Agriculture\n-\nMember.\n(iv)\nRepresentative of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural\n\t\t\t\tDevelopment\n-\nMember.\n(v)\nDirector of Industries\n-\nMember.\n(vi)\nDirector of ICAR Complex, Goa\n-\nMember.\n(vii)\nRepresentative of the Department of Agriculture and\n\t\t\t\tCo-operation (Technology Mission on Oil seeds and Pulses),\n\t\t\t\tGovernment of India\n-\nMember.\n(viii)\nArea representative of any private sector company involved in\n\t\t\t\toil palm processing to be nominated by the Government\n-\nMember\n(ix)\nManaging Director, Goa State Horticulture Development\n\t\t\t\tCorporation, Goa\n-\nMember\n(x)\nThree persons from among the oil palm growers as may be\n\t\t\t\tnominated by the Government\n-\nMembers\n(xi)\nAny other interested groups or experts which the Government\n\t\t\t\tconsiders appropriate to be represented on the Committee\n-\nMembers\n(xii)\nDeputy Director of Agriculture (Horticulture), Government of\n\t\t\t\tGoa\n-\nMember Secretary",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Duties of the Committee.",
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            "content": "(i) Extension of the areas under cultivation of oil palm in factory zone;\n(ii) Problems relating to the cultivation of oil palm;\n(iii) Problems faced by the oil palm processing industry and recommend to the Government such action as may be necessary for removal of such problems;\n(iv) Co-ordination between the oil palm growers and industry and sorting out of all matters which may arise;\n(v) Any measures that will suit the orderly development of oil palm cultivation and industry;\n(vi) Complaints of growers regarding transportation, purchase of oil palm FFB and payment of price by factory and oil palm cultivators;\n(vii) Recommend to the local bodies, Public Works Department and other Government agencies for providing necessary facilities for the factory;\n(viii) To take steps for prevention and control of oil palm diseases and pests and render help for development of the oil palm cultivation;\n(ix) Draw plans for training of cultivators and extension work;\n(x) Such other matters as may be prescribed.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Appointment of Oil Palm Commissioner.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Appointment of Oil Palm Inspectors.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Declaration of factory zone.",
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            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Refusing purchase of fresh fruit bunches.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Price fixation of FFBs.",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Powers of entry and inspection of records/registers maintained.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Compounding an offence.",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Penalties.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Jurisdiction of court.",
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Immunity to implementing authority.",
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        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Offences by firms, companies or co-operative societies.",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Payments to be made for purchased FFBs.",
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        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Taxation.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Use of tax.",
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            "content": "(i) for the overall development of oil palm plantations;\n(ii) to bring more areas under oil palm cultivation;\n(iii) to monitor the Schemes benefiting the oil palm growers;\n(iv) to develop the feeder roads to facilitate movement of oil palm FFBs and;\n(v) any other purpose in the interests of oil palm growers in particular or in the interests of the general public residing in oil palm growing zones.",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Enquiry by Commissioner.",
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        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Delegation of powers.",
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        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) as to the conditions governing the declaration of a factory zone and as to the alteration or cancellation thereof;\n(b) as to the plucking, collection and delivery of the oil palm FFBs by the growers or as the case may be, by the companies and the prescription of collection centres by the Commissioner.\nNotifications\nNotifications\nDNo.3/2/Agron/Oil/3-7/2008-09/D.Agri.\n1)\nSecretary (Agriculture) Government of Goa\n-\nChairman.\n2)\nDirector of Agriculture, Government of Goa\n-\nMember.\n3)\nRepresentative of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural\n\t\t\t\tDevelopment, Goa\n-\nMember.\n4)\nDirector of Industries, Government of Goa\n-\nMember.\n5)\nChief Engineer, (WRD) Government of Goa\n-\nMember.\n6)\nDirector, ICAR, Goa\n-\nMember.\n7)\nRepresentative of the Department of Agriculture and\n\t\t\t\tCooperation, Government of India (TMOP)/ISOPOM\n-\nMember.\n8)\nRepresentative of Godrej Agrovet Ltd., Valpoi\n-\nMember.\n9)\nManaging Director, Goa State Horticultural Development\n\t\t\t\tCorporation, Government of Goa\n-\nMember.\n10)\nShri Balasaheb Rane, Vadawal, Bhicholim-Goa\n-\nNon official Member.\n11)\nFr. Inacio Almeida, Bhironde, Valpoi Goa (Farmer\n\t\t\t\tRepresentation)\n-\nNon official Member.\n12)\nDr. Jorson Fernandes, Cuncolim Goa (Farmer Representative)\n-\nNon official Member.\n13)\nDy. Director of Agriculture, Incharge of Oil Palm Development\n\t\t\t\tProgramme, Directorate of Agriculture, Government of Goa\n-\nMember Secretary.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "goa200",
        "Act Number": "(Goa Act 23 of 1998)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1998",
        "Short Title": "The Goa Oil Palm (Regulation of Production and Processing) Act, 1998",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:43"
}