Lawgist20Export of coffee
No coffee shall be exported from 1[India] otherwise than by the Board or under an authorisation granted by the Board in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed cases, and the provisions of the 2[Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), shall have effect as if the provision made by this section had been made by notification issued under section 11] of that Act:
3[Provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to coffee--
(i) shipped as stores on board any vessel or aircraft in such quantity as the 4[Commissioner] considers reasonable, having regard to the number of the crew and passengers and the length of the voyage or journey, as the case may be, on which the vessel or aircraft is about to proceed, or
5[(ii) carried as personal baggage of a passenger, not exceeding such quantities as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, or
(iii) exported for such purposes and in such quantities as the Central Government may specify in the like manner :]]
6[Provided further that the Central Government may, by order in writing, specify the quantity of coffee which shall be permitted for export during any year and where any such order is made, no coffee shall be exported from India in excess of the said quantity :]
Provided further that the Central Government may exempt from the operation of this section, either absolutely or subject to conditions, the export of coffee from 1[India] 7[to the State of Jammu and Kashmir*] or to any foreign settlement bounded by India.
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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch., for "the States".
2. Subs. by Act 23 of 1994. s. 6, for certain words (w.e.f. 14-1-1994).
3. Subs. by Act 50 of 1954, s. 16, for the first proviso (w.e.f. 1-8-1955).
4. Subs. by Act 22 of 1995, s. 85, for "Collector".
5. Subs. by Act 48 of 1961, s. 9, for cls. (ii), (iii) and (iv) (w.e.f. 19-4-1962).
6. The Proviso ins. by Act 50 of 1954, s.16 (w.e.f. 1-8-1955).
7. Subs. by s. 3 and Sch., ibid., for "to a Part B State".
*. Vide Notification No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
- 1 Short title, extent and duration
- 2 Declaration as to expediency of Union control
- 3 Definitions
- 4 Constitution of the Board
- 5 Incorporation of the Board
- 6 Vesting of property in the Board
- 6A Consultation with the Board
- 7 Committees, staff and agents
- 8 Salary and allowances of Chairman
- 8A Vice-Chairman
- 9 Chief Coffee Marketing Officer, Secretary and other Staff
- 10 Dissolution of the Board
- 11 [Repealed.]
- 12 [Repealed.]
- 13 [Repealed.]
- 14 Registration of owners of coffee estates
- 15 Power of State Government to make rules
- 16 Fixation of prices for sale of coffee
- 17 Sale of coffee in excess of free sale quota
- 18 Sale of coffee, how made
- 19 [Repealed.]
- 20 Export of coffee
- 21 Re-import of coffee exported from India
- 22 Free sale quota
- 23 Returns to be made by registered owners
- 24 Licences for sale of uncured coffee
- 25 Surplus coffee and surplus pool
- 26 Sales of coffee by the Board
- 27 Coffee to be cured in licensed curing establishments
- 28 Licensing of curing establishments
- 29 Information to be supplied to the Board in connection with curing
- 30 Separate funds to be maintained by the Board
- 31 General fund
- 32 Pool fund
- 32A Power of the Board to make donation to the Gandhi National Memorial Fund
- 33 Power to borrow
- 34 Payments to registered owners
- 35 Failure to register
- 36 Contraventions of sections 16, 17 and 18
- 37 Unlicensed curing establishment
- 37A Contravention of section 23(1)
- 38 False returns
- 38A Contravention of section 25
- 38B Powers to seize coffee withheld from inclusion in surplus pool
- 39 Obstruction
- 39A Offences by companies
- 40 Cognizance of offences
- 41 [Repealed.]
- 42 Control by the Central Government
- 43 Appeals to the Central Government
- 44 Inspection of records
- 45 Accounts of the Board
- 46 Inspection of records of the Board and obtaining of copies
- 47 Contracts
- 47A Bar of legal proceedings
- 48 Power of the Central Government to make rules
- 49 Repeal of Act 14 of 1935
- 50 [Repealed.]
