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Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

Pays/Territoire
Inde
Type du document
Législation
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Titre complet
An Act further to amend the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
Sujet
Bétail, Alimentation et nutrition, Plantes cultivées
Mot clé
Produits agricoles Protection du consommateur Commerce intérieur Aliments pour animaux Commerce international
Aire géographique
Asie, Asie et Pacifique, Océan Indien, Mer de l'Asie du Sud-Est, Asie du Sud
Entry into force notes
This Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 5th day of June, 2020.
Résumé

This Act is enacted to amend the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. The Act amends Section 3 concerning powers granted to the Central Government to control production, supply, distribution, etc., of essential commodities. The amendments include: in section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, after sub-section (1), the sub-section shall be inserted, namely:(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),— (a) the supply of such foodstuffs, including cereals, pulses, potato, onions, edible oilseeds and oils, as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, may be regulated only under extraordinary circumstances which may include war, famine, extraordinary price rise and natural calamity of grave nature;(b) any action on imposing stock limit shall be based on price rise and an order for regulating stock limit of any agricultural produce may be issued under this Act only if there is: (i) hundred per cent. increase in the retail price of horticultural produce; or (ii) fifty per cent. increase in the retail price of non-perishable agricultural foodstuffs, over the price prevailing immediately preceding twelve months, or average retail price of last five years, whichever is lower.

Texte intégral
Anglais
Site web
consumeraffairs.nic.in

Références - Législation

Amende

Essential Commodities Act (Act No. 10 of 1955).

Législation | Inde | 1955 (1986)

Mot clé: Produits agricoles, Protection du consommateur, Commerce intérieur, Aliments pour animaux, Commerce international

Source: FAO, FAOLEX