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The Cotton Industry (Statistics) Act, 1926.

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Department: Industries, Commerce and Technical Education Department
Main Category: Acts
Specific Category Name: Industry
Year 1926
Promulgation Date: 25-03-1926
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THE COTTON INDUSTRY (STATISTICS) ACT, 1926.


(Act No. XX of 1926)


CONTENTS 


SECTIONS

 

1.         Short title and extent.

 

2.         Definitions.

 

3.         Delivery of monthly returns of goods and yarn manufactured by mill owners.

 

4.         Power to inspect mill and take copies of records.

 

5.         Publications of returns.

 

6.         Power to make rules.

 

7.         Penalties.

 

8.         Exemption.

 

9.         Protection for acts done under this Act.

 

THE COTTON INDUSTRY (STATISTICS) ACT, 1926.


(Act No. XX of 1926).


[25th March,l926].

 

An Act to provide for the regular submission of returns of quantities of cotton goods manufactured and cotton yarn spun in [1][Pakistan].

 

            WHEREAS it is expedient, notwithstanding the repeal of the Cotton Duties Act, 1896, to provide for the regular submission of returns of the quantities of cotton goods manufactured and cotton yarn spun in [2][Pakistan],


            It is hereby enacted as follows:—

 

    1.     (1) This Act may be called the Cotton Industry (Statistics) Act, 1926.

Short title and extent.

 

            [3][(2) It extends to the Whole of Pakistan].

 

    2.     For the purposes of this Act, unless there is anything re­pugnant in the subject or context,—

Definitions.

 

(a)          "cotton goods" or "goods" include all tissues and other articles (except yarn and thread) woven, knitted or other­wise manufactured wholly or partly from cotton yarn;

 

(b)         "cotton yarn"' or "yarn" means yarn wholly or partly composed of cotton fibres;

 

(c)          "mill" means any building or place where cotton goods are woven, knitted or otherwise manufactured or where cotton yam is spun, by machinery moved otherwise than by manual labour, and includes every part of such building or place;

 

(d)         "owner"', in relation to any mill, includes the manag­ing agent or other principal officer of the mill; and

 

(e)          "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.

 

    3.     (1) The  owner of every  mill shall each month prepare  and deliver, or cause to be prepared and delivered, to the  prescribed officer a return of all cotton goods manufactured and all cotton yarn pun in the mill during the preceding month by machinery moved otherwise than by manual labour, and shall subscribe a declaration of the truth of the return at the foot thereof.

Delivery of mon- thly returns of goods and yarn manufactured by mill owner.

 

            (2) Save as may be otherwise prescribed, every such return shall the quantity manufactured during the period of which the return relates, and shall contain such further information, and be in such form and be subject to such conditions as to verification and otherwise as may be prescribed.

 

            (3) Every such return shall be delivered to the prescribed officer or posted to his address within seven days after the end of the month to which it relates.

 

    4.     (1) Any officer authorised by the [4][Provincial Government] by order in writing in this behalf shall have free access at all reasonable times during working hours to any mill and may at any time, with or without notice to the owner, examine and take copies of, or extracts from, the records of the mill for the purpose of testing the accuracy of any return made under section 3, or of informing himself as to any particulars regarding which information is required for the purposes of this Act or any rules made there under:

Power to inspect mill and take copies of records.

 

            Provided that no officer not especially empowered by the [5][Provincial Government] in this behalf shall be entitled to inspect any record containing the description or formulate of any trade process.

 

            (2) All copies and extracts and all information acquired by any officer in the inspection of any mill under this section shall be treated as strictly confidential.

 

    5.     The [6][Provincial Government] shall, from the returns
delivered under section 3, cause to be compiled and published, in such
form as [7][it] may direct, statements showing for each month the total
quantities of goods manufactured and of yarn spun in mills in [8][the
Province].

Publication of returns.

 

    6.     (1) The [9][Provincial Government] may, by notification in the [10][Official Gazette], make rules [11]consistent with this Act to carry out the purposes thereof.

Power to make rules.

 

(a)          the form of any return required under this Act, the particu­lars to be contained therein, and the manner in which the return shall be verified;

 

(b)         the nature of the records to be maintained by the owners of mills;

 

(c)          the powers and duties, in regard to the inspection of mills under this Act, of the officers authorised to make such inspections ; and

 

(d)         any other matter which may be or is to be prescribed.

 

    7.     (1) Any person  who—

Penalties

 

(a)          knowingly falsifies any record of manufacture or produc­tion kept in a mill, or

 

(b)         being required to deliver a return under section 3, know­ingly delivers a false return, or

 

(c)          omits to make any return required by section 3, or refuses to sign or complete the same, or

 

(d)         knowingly does any act, not otherwise punishable under this Act, in contravention of the provisions of any rule made under this Act,

 

shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

 

            (2) Any person who discloses any particulars or other infor­mation acquired by him in the inspection of any mill under this Act shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees;

 

Provided that nothing in this   sub-section shall apply to the disclosure—

 

(a)     of any such particulars or information for the purpose of a prosecution under section 193 of the Pakistan Penal Code or under this Act, in respect of any return kept or record made for the purposes of this Act, or

 

(b)     of any such particulars or information to any parson act­ing in the execution of any duty imposed upon him by this Act, where the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of this Act.

 

    8.     The [12][Provincial Government] may, by notification in the [13][Official Gazette], exempt from the operation of this Act or of any specified provision thereof any mill or class of mills, or any goods or class of goods, specified in the notification.

Exemption

 

    9.     No suit or other legal proceeding shall be instituted against any person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.

Protection for acts done under this Act

 


    [1]. Subs., by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance. 1960 (XXI of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from 14th October, 1955), for "the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation" which had been subs, by A.O.,  1944, for "British India."

    [2]. Subs., by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance. 1960 (XXI of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from 14th October, 1955), for "the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation" which had been subs, by A. O.,  1944, for "British India."

    [3]. Subs, first by Ordinance XXI of 1960   s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14ih October, 1955)   for the Original sub-section (2) as amended by A. O.   1949.

    [4]. Subs., by A. O.,.1937   for" L G."

    [5]. Subs., by A. O.,.1937   for" L G."

    [6]. Subs. ibid, for "G. G. in C."

    [7]. Subs., ibid, for “he”

    [8]. Subs.. ibid for "British India". 

    [9]. Subs., by A. O., 1937, for "G. G, in C."

    [10]. Subs, ibid, for "Gazette of India".

    [11]. For such rules, see Gazette of India, 1926 Pt. I, p, 463. 

[12]. Subs, by A.O. 1937, for "G. G. in C".

[13]. Subs., ibid, for "Gazette of India".