The Coconut Committee Act, 1944

( ACT NO. X OF 1944 )

[ 31st March, 1944 ]
An Act to provide for financing a Committee for the improvement and development of the cultivation, marketing and utilisation of coconuts in Bangladesh.1♣

 
 
 
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for financing a Committee for the improvement and development of the cultivation, marketing and utilisation of coconuts in Bangladesh;
 
 
 
 
It is hereby enacted as follows:-
 
 
 

CONTENTS

SECTIONS

1. Short title and extent

2. Definitions

3. Imposition of coconut cess

4. [Omitted.]

5. [Omitted.]

6. [Omitted.]

7. [Omitted.]

8. [Omitted.]

9. Functions of the Committee

10. Delivery of monthly returns

11. Collection of cess by Collector

12. Finality of assessment and recovery of unpaid duty

13. Power to inspect mills and take copies of records and accounts

14. Information acquired to be confidential

15. [Omitted.]

16. [Omitted.]

17. [Omitted.]

18. Power of the Government to make rule

18A. Penalty for contravention of rules

19. [Omitted.]

20. Publication of rules and regulations