The Bihar Bricks Control Order, 1983

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    "slug": "the-bihar-bricks-control-order-1983",
    "title": "The Bihar Bricks Control Order, 1983",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Bricks Control Order, 1983",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. G.S.R. 24, Bihar G",
    "act_year": 1983,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Bricks Control Order, 1983",
    "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) \"Consumer\" means a person who acquires bricks for private consumption and not for sale ;\n(b) \"Licensing Authority\" means the District Magistrate of a District or any other officer authorised by the State Government in this behalf within the limits of whose jurisdiction a manufacturer or a dealer is engaged in the business of manufacturing or dealing or storing bricks for the purpose of sale ;\n(c) \"State Government\" means the Government of the State of Bihar;\n(d) \"Brick-year\" to the 30th September of the following calendar year;\n(e) \"Commissioner\" means Divisional Commissioner and includes Food Commissioner, Bihar;\n(f) \"The Ordinance\" means the Bihar Bricks Supplies (Control) Ordinance, 1983; and\n(g) Words and expressions used in the Order but not defined herein shall have the same meanings as are respectively assigned to them in the Ordinance.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Licensing of dealers and manufacturers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Issue of a licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Period of a licence and fees chargeable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) For issue of a licence-Rs. 200 (Rupees two hundred).\n(b) For renewal of a licence-Rs. 100 (Rupees one hundred).\n(c) For issue of a duplicate licence-Rs. 200 (Rupees two hundred).",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Contravention of the provisions of this Order and conditions of the licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refusing to grant a licence, or\n(b) cancelling or suspending a licence,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Fixation of size and specification of bricks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Price of bricks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) cost of coal including freight, transport, loading/unloading charges,\n(b) expense incurred on moulding of kacha bricks, including expense on sand, clay and water;\n(c) expense in loading and unloading bricks from kiln and stocking in the premises of the bricks kiln;\n(d) Mistri and labour charges for firing kiln;\n(e) maintenance of temporary labour huts : chimney and bricks kiln equipment;\n(f) cost of firewood and igniting coal;\n(g) tax and overheads;\n(h) natural damages to bricks; and\n(i) profit not exceeding fifteen per cent.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Display of price list and stock of bricks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the stock of different classes of bricks held by him from time to time and ready for sale; and\n(b) the price at which different classes of the bricks will be sold.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Regulation of distribution and sale.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power of entry, search, seizure, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) require the owner, occupier or any other person-in-charge of such places, premises, vehicle, vessels and aircraft to produce any books, accounts or other documents showing transactions relating to such contraventions :\n(b) take or cause to be taken extracts from or copies of any document showing transactions relating to such contravention ; and\n(c) search, seize and remove stocks of bricks held in contravention of the provisions of this Order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh044",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. G.S.R. 24, Bihar Gazette, (Extra-ordinary) dated 19th July, 1983",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1983",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Bricks Control Order, 1983",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}