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The Essential Articles (Price Control and Anti-Hoarding) Act, 1953 (East Bengal Act)

( ACT NO. XXII OF 1953 )

Power to require maintenance of accounts, etc., and registration of godowns
9. (1) Any officer, authorised in this behalf by the Government, may, by general or special order in writing,-
 
 
 
 
(a) require a trader to maintain accounts relating to any transaction in such manner and form as may be prescribed;
 
 
 
 
(b) require a trader to submit such accounts, returns, reports or statements relating to any transactions, in such manner and form and to such officer as may be prescribed;
 
 
 
 
(c) require a trader to cause his storage godown to be registered on payment of such fees and in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed; and
 
 
 
 
(d) require a trader to keep hung up in his business centre a notice-board quoting therein the daily stock of essential articles held by him in his stock.
 
 
 
 
(2) No trader whose godown has been registered under clause (c) of sub-section (1) shall store any essential article in any place other than the godown so registered.

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