Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925

From: 1925-03-18 - To: 0000-00-00 An act to provide for the better regulation of cotton ginning and cotton pressing factories WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the better regulation of cotton ginning and cotton pressing factories; It is hereby enacted as follows:- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925. (2) [2][It extends to the Province of the Punjab]; (3) It shall come into force on such date[3] as the [4][Provincial Government] may, by notification in the [5][Official Gazette], appoint. 2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (a) “bale” means any pressed package of cotton of whatever size or density; (b) “cotton” means ginned or unginned cotton or cotton waste; (c) “cotton ginning factory” means any place where cotton is ginned or where cotton fibre is separated from cotton seed by any process whatever involving the use of steam, water or other mechanical power or of electrical power; (d) “cotton pressing factory” means any factory as defined in the [6]Indian Factories Act, 1911[7] in which cotton is pressed into bales; (e) “cotton waste” means droppings, strippings, fly and other waste products of a cotton mill or of a cotton ginning factory or of a cotton pressing factory but does not include yarn waste; (f) “[8][Pakistan Central Cotton Committee]” means the [9][Pakistan Central Cotton Committee] constituted under the [10][Cotton Cess (Amendment) Act, 1948[11]], and includes any sub-committee appointed by it to perform any function of the [12][Pakistan Central Cotton Committee] under this Act; (g) “occupier” includes a managing agent or other person authorised to represent the occupier; and (h) “prescribed” means prescribed by or under rules made under this Act. 3. Maintenance of registers.— (1) The owner of every cotton ginning factory shall cause to be maintained at the factory in such form, if any, as may be prescribed a ginning register containing a record of all cotton ginned in the factory and of the names of the persons for whom and the dates on which the cotton has been ginned and of the amount ginned for each…