22Free sale quota
1[22. Free sale quota.--(1) Unless with the previous sanction of the Central Government the Board decides that no free sale quotas shall be allotted, the Board shall, as soon as may be, allot to each registered estate a free sale quota for the year.
(2) The free sale quota shall be a fixed percentage, common to all registered estates, not exceeding fifty per cent. of the probable total production of the estate in the year as estimated by the Board :
Provided that the Board may, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, allot such quota at a percentage higher than fifty per cent. of the said probable total production.
(3) The Board may at any time vary the free sale quota by varying the fixed percentage common to all registered estates, or may express the whole or any part of the free sale quota of an estate in terms of bulk instead of in terms of weight.]
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1. Subs. by Act 23 of 1994, s. 7, for s. 22 (w.e.f. 14-1-1994).
- 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- 11 [Repealed.]
- 12 [Repealed.]
- 13 [Repealed.]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- 19 [Repealed.]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.]