The Gujarat Essential Commodities and Cattle (Control) Act, 2005

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    "title": "The Gujarat Essential Commodities and Cattle (Control) Act, 2005",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Essential Commodities and Cattle (Control) Act, 2005",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 15 of 2005",
    "act_year": 2005,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "description": "The Gujarat Essential Commodities and Cattle (Control) Act, 2005",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and extent.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"cattle\" means any of the animals specified in Part II of the Schedule;\n(b) \"essential commodity\" means a commodity specified in Part I of the Schedule;\n(c) \"notified order\" means an order notified in the Official Gazette .",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Amendment of Schedule.",
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            "title": "4. Powers to control production, supply, distribution, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) for regulating or prohibiting the production, supply and distribution of, or trade and commerce in, such essential commodity,\n(b) for regulating or prohibiting movement, supply and distribution of or trade and commerce in, or for regulating the maintenance of cattle.\n(a) for regulating licence, permit or otherwise the production or manufacture of any essential commodity;\n(b) for regulating by licence, permit or otherwise the storage, movement, transport, distribution, disposal, acquisition, use or consumption of any essential commodity;\n(c) for prohibiting the withholding from sale of any essential commodity ordinarily kept for sale;\n(d) for requiring any person holding in stock any essential commodity to sell the whole or a specified part, of the stock at such price to the Government or to an officer or agent, of such Government or to such other person or class of persons, and in such circumstances, as may be specified in the order;\n(e) for controlling the price at which any essential commodity or cattle may be brought or sold;\n(f) for regulating by licence, permit or otherwise , the movement, transport, distribution, disposal, acquisition, use and keeping of cattle;\n(g) for collecting any information or statistics with a view to regulating or prohibiting any of the matters aforesaid;\n(h) for requiring persons engaged in the production, supply or distribution of, or trade or commerce in, any essential commodity or cattle to maintain and produce for inspection such books, accounts and records, relating to their business and to furnish such information relating thereto, as may be specified in the order;\n(i) for requiring owners as well as persons in charge of cattle to maintain and produce for inspection, such books, accounts and records relating to the number of cattle owned, controlled and maintained by them as may be specified in the order;\n(j) for any incidental and supplementary matters, including in particular the entering and search of premises, vehicles and vessels, the seizure by a person authorized to make such search of any articles in respect of which such person has reason to believe that a contravention of the order has been, is being or is about to be committed, and of any vehicle, vessel or animal which he has reason to believe has been, is being or is about to be used for carrying such articles, the grant or issue of licences, permits or other documents, and the charging of fees therefor.\n(a) where the price can consistently with the controlled price, if any, fixed under this section, be agreed upon, the agreed price;\n(b) where no such agreement can be reached, the price calculated with reference to such controlled price, if any;\n(c) where neither clause (a) nor clause (b) applies, the price calculated at the market rate prevailing in the locality at the date of sale.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Publication and service of orders.",
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            "content": "(a) if it is an order of a general nature or affecting a class of persons, be notified in the Official Gazette ;\n(b) if it is an order affecting an individual corporation or firm, be served in the manner provided for the service of a summons in Rule 2 of Order XXIX or, as the case may be, rule 3 of Order XXX in the First Schedule of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908);\n(c) if it is an order affecting an individual person other than a corporation or firm, be served on the person-\n(i) personally, by delivering or tendering to him the order, or\n(ii) by post, or\n(iii) where the person cannot be found, by leaving an authentic copy of the order with some adult male member of his family or by affixing such copy to some conspicuous part of the premises in which he is known to have last resided or carried on business or worked for gain and a written report of such affixing shall be prepared and witnessed by two persons living in the neighborhood.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Delegation of powers.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Effects of orders inconsistent with other enactment.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Ordinary avocations of life to be interfered with as little as possible.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Penalties.",
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            "content": "(i) in the case of an order made with reference to clause (g), (h) or (i) of subsection (2) of that section, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year and shall also be liable to fine;\n(ii) in the case of any other order, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine:",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Attempts and abetment.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. False statements.",
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            "content": "(i) when required by any order made or deemed to be made under section 4 to make any statement or furnish any in information, makes any statement or furnishes any information which is false in any material particular, and which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false, or does not believe to be true, or\n(ii) makes any such statement as aforesaid in any book, account, record, declaration, return or other document which he is required by any such order to maintain or furnish, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Offences by companies.",
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            "content": "(a) \"company\" means any body corporate and includes firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Cognisance of offences and composition thereof.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Special provision regarding fine.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Presumption as to order.",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Burden of proofs in certain cases.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Power to try offence summarily.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Power to make rules.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Repeal and savings.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Act not to apply to essential commodity dealt with by Act X of 1955.",
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            "content": "Schedule\nPart I\nEssential Commodities",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Bricks used for building purposes.",
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            "content": "Part II\nCattle",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Bulls",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Bullocks",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Cows",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Heifers",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Calves",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Buffaloes",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Goats",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Sheep",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj050",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 15 of 2005",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2005",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Essential Commodities and Cattle (Control) Act, 2005",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}