Maharashtra Excise Manual
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(b) For regulating by licences, permits or otherwise the storage, supply, transport distribution, disposal acquisition possession, use or consumption of molasses,

* Page header indicates 1106 Maharashtra Prohibition Act \ 1949: Bom. XXV

(b) For regulating by licences, permits or otherwise the storage, supply, transport distribution, disposal acquisition possession, use or consumption of molasses,

(c) For requiring any person or occupier of a sugar factory to sell molasses, held in stock by him or produced or to be produced in his factory, to the State Government to the exclusion, complete or partial, of other or to such person or class of persons and in such circumstances and upon such terms as may be specified in the order.

(d) For the taking of samples and grading and testing of molasses :

(e) for regulating or prohibiting any class of commercial or financial transactions relating to molasses, which in the opinion of the State Government are, or, if unregulated, are likely to be, detrimental to the public interest;

(f) For collecting any information or statistics with a view regulating or prohibiting any of the aforesaid matter,

(g) For requiring occupiers of sugar factories and person engaged in the production, supply or distribution of, or trade and committee in molasses, to maintain and produce for inspection such books, accounts and records relating to their business and to furnish such information relating there to, as may be specified in the order, and

(h) for any incidental and supplementary matters, including in particulars the grant or issue of licences, permits or other documents, their terms and conditions and the charging of fees therefor

(3) Where, in pursuance of any order made with reference to clause (c) of sub-section , any person sells molasses, there shall be paid to him the price therefore.

  1. (a) where the price can consistently with the controlled price calculated with reference to the controlled price, if any, fixed under this section: and
  2. (b) where no such agreement can be reached, the price calculated with reference to the controlling price, if any, fixed under this sections; and.
  3. (c) where neither clause (a) nor clause (b) applies, the price calculated at the market rate prevailing in the locality at the date of sale.

(4) An order made under this section shall,

  1. (a) in the case of an order of a general nature of affecting a class of persons, be notified in the Official Gazette:
  2. (b) in the case of an order affecting an individual corporation or firm be served in the manner provided for the service of a summons in rule 2 order XXIX or rule 3 of Order XXX, as the case may be in the First Schedule of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908; and
  3. (c) in the case of an order directed to a specified individual, be served on such individual-
    1. (i) by personally delivering or tendering to in the order; or
    2. (ii) by post, or
    3. (iii) where the individual cannot be found, by leaving an authentic cop of the order with some adult male member of his family or by affixing such copy to some conspicuous part of the premises in which he is known to have last resided or carried on business or worked for gain.