The Gujarat Minor Forest Produce Trade Nationalism Act, 1979

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    "title": "The Gujarat Minor Forest Produce Trade Nationalism Act, 1979",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Minor Forest Produce Trade Nationalism Act, 1979",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 7 of 1979",
    "act_year": 1979,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Minor Forest Produce Trade Nationalism Act, 1979",
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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": "(1) \"agent\" means an agent appointed under Section 6;\n(2) \"appointed day\" means the 28th November, 1978 being the date on which the Gujarat Minor Forest Produce Trade Nationalisation (Second) Ordinance, 1978 (Gujarat Ordinance 9 of 1978) came into force;\n(3) \"authorised officer\" means an officer of the State Government appointed by it, by an order published in the Official Gazette to sell, purchase or transport any minor forest produce on behalf of the State Government under the provisions of this Act, and includes an officer of the Corporation authorised by it under sub-section (3) of the Section 6;\n(4) \"Code\" means the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879 (Bombay V of 1879);\n(5) \"Committee\" means the Advisory Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of Section 7;\n(6) \"Corporation\" means the Gujarat State Forest Development Corporation Limited formed and incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 (I of 1956);\n(7) \"grower\" means a person who grows any minor forest produce in the land in his possession, whether as an occupant, tenant or in any other capacity, and includes in relation to such produce grown in any unoccupied land or any forest land or waste-land comprised in any reserved or protected forest constituted under the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927),-\n(a) where such land in leased, the lessee, and\n(b) Where such land in not leased, the State Government;\n(8) \"import\" means to bring into the State from outside the State otherwise than across a customs frontier;\n(9) \"minor forest produce\" means any of the following classes of forest produce:-\n(a) timru leaves.\n(b) mhowra flowers.\n(c) mhowra fruits, seeds and doli,\n(d) any other class of forest produce which the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette , declare to be a minor forest produce for the purposes of this Act;\n(10) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(11) \"State\" means the State of Gujarat;\n(12) \"Unit\" means an area of the State constituted as a unit under Section 5;\n(13) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the meanings assigned to them, in the Code or, as the case may be, in the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927).",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Restriction on sale, purchase or transport of minor forest produce.",
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            "content": "(i) with effect on and from the appointed day, any of the minor forest produces specified in sub-clauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (9) of Section 2, and\n(ii) with effect on and from the date of publication in the Official Gazette of a notification issued under sub-clause (d) of clause (9) of Section 2, the minor forest produce declared as such under such notification.\n(a) any person to sell any minor forest produce to, or purchase any minor forest produce from, the State Government, authorised officer or an agent;\n(b) a grower to transport any minor forest produce grown by him from any place in a unit where such produce has been grown to a purchasing centre or depot set up in that unit under Section 8 or to any other place in that unit;\n(c) (i) any person who has purchased any minor forest produce from the State Government, or an authorised officer or an agent, and.\n(ii) any person who has purchased any minor forest produce from another person under clause (e).\n(d) any person to import any minor forest produce or to transport the minor forest produce so imported, in accordance with the terms and conditions of a permit issued by such authority and in such manner as may be prescribed; and\n(e) (i) any person, who has purchased any minor forest produce from the State Government or authorised officer, or an agent to sell such of the minor forest produce, as may be specified by the State Government by general or special order published in the Official Gazette , to any other person; and\n(ii) other person to whom the minor forest produce is so offered for purchase to purchase the same,",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Fixation of price by State Government in consultation with Committee.",
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            "content": "(a) the price, if any, fixed under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force, for the concerned minor forest produce in the unit during the preceding three or two years or one year, as the case may be, for which such price may have been fixed, and where no such price may have been fixed for any such year or years the price for the concerned minor forest produce prevailing in the year in which the price is fixed or such price as would have prevailed, in the unit during the next succeeding year,\n(b) the quality of the minor forest, produce,\n(c) the transport facilities available.\n(d) the cost of transport,\n(e) the general level of wages for unskilled labour prevalent in the unit, and\n(i) such other factors as may be prescribed.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Consultation of units.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Appointment of agents.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Constitution of Advisory Committee.",
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            "content": "(i) at least one member shall be from amongst the persons who, in the opinion of the State Government, are traders ordinarily carrying on the trade of buying or selling of some minor forest produce,\n(ii) at least one member shall from amongst the persons who, in the opinion of the State Government, are growers, and\n(iii) at least one member shall be from amongst persons belonging to the Scheduled Tribes, who are members of the Forest Labourers Co-operative Societies.\nExplanation.\n(i) a trader or a grower shall mean, in a case where the trader or the grower is a local authority, a society, a company or any other association of individuals, a person authorised in writing by such local authority, society, company or association, as the case may be, to represent it on such committee;\n(ii) \"Scheduled Tribes\" shall mean tribes or tribal communities or parts of, or groups within, such tribes or tribal communities as are deemed to be Scheduled Tribes in relation to the State of Gujarat under article 342 of the Constitution.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Setting up purchasing centres and depots.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Purchase of minor forest produce.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Appeal.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Registration.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Disposal of minor forest produce.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Delegation of powers.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Power of entry, search, seizure, etc.",
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            "content": "(i) stop and search any person, boat, vehicle or receptacle used or intended to be used for the transport of any minor forest produce;\n(ii) enter and search any place;\n(iii) seize minor forest produce in respect of which he suspects that any provision of this Act or the rules made thereunder has been, is being or is about to be, contravened, alongwith the receptacle containing such produce or the vehicle or boat used in carrying such produce.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Penalty.",
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            "content": "(a) he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both; and when the offence is a continuing one, with a daily fine not exceeding one hundred rupees during the period of the continuance of the offence.\n(b) the minor forest produce in respect of which such contravention has been made or such part thereof as the Court may deem fit shall be forfeited to the State Government :",
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            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Attempts and abetments.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Cognizance of offence.",
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            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Declaration that Act gives effect to certain directive principles.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the authority by' which and the manner in which a permit may be issued under clauses (c), (d) and (e) of sub-section (2) of that Section 3;\n(b) the other manner in which the price fixed under sub-section (1) of Section 4 shall be published under sub-section (2) of that section;\n(c) the factors that may be prescribed under clause (f) of sub-section (3) of Section 4;\n(d) the procedure to be followed in making appointment of an agent under Section 6; ,\n(e) the manner in which the functions of the Committee shall be performed under sub-section (4) of Section 7 and allowances to which the members of the Committee shall be entitled under sub-section (5) of that section;\n(f) regulation of payment of charges payable to a person under sub-section (5) of Section 9.\n(g) the quantity exceeding which the grower has grown the minor forest produce for the purpose of being liable to be registered under Section 11, the fees to be paid for being registered, the manner in which his name and address shall be registered under the said section and the officer empowered to keep the register for the registration of growers under the said section;\n(h) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Indian Forest Act not to apply to minor forest produce or purposes covered under this Act.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Removal of difficulties.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Repeal and savings.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj118",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 7 of 1979",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1979",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Minor Forest Produce Trade Nationalism Act, 1979",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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