The Coffee Act

Short title, extent and duration

Declaration as to expediency of Union control

Definitions

Constitution of the Board

Incorporation of the Board

Vesting of property in the Board

Consultation with the Board

Committees, staff and agents

Salary and allowances of Chairman

Vice-Chairman

Chief Coffee Marketing Officer, Secretary and other Staff

Dissolution of the Board

[Repealed.]

Registration of owners of coffee estates

Power of State Government to make rules

Fixation of prices for sale of coffee

Sale of coffee in excess of free sale quota

Sale of coffee, how made

Export of coffee

Re-import of coffee exported from India

Free sale quota

Returns to be made by registered owners

Licences for sale of uncured coffee

Surplus coffee and surplus pool

Sales of coffee by the Board

Coffee to be cured in licensed curing establishments

Licensing of curing establishments

Information to be supplied to the Board in connection with curing

Separate funds to be maintained by the Board

General fund

Pool fund

Power of the Board to make donation to the Gandhi National Memorial Fund

Power to borrow

Payments to registered owners

Failure to register

Contraventions of sections 16, 17 and 18

Unlicensed curing establishment

Contravention of section 23(1)

False returns

Contravention of section 25

Powers to seize coffee withheld from inclusion in surplus pool

Obstruction

Offences by companies

Cognizance of offences

Control by the Central Government

Appeals to the Central Government

Inspection of records

Accounts of the Board

Inspection of records of the Board and obtaining of copies

Contracts

Bar of legal proceedings

Power of the Central  Government to make rules

Repeal of Act 14 of 1935

All sections

41[16. Fixation of prices for sale of coffee.--(1) The Central Government may 2
* * * by
notification in the Official Gazette fix the price or prices at which coffee may be sold wholesale
or retail in the Indian market.

(2) No registered owner or licensed curer or dealer shall sell coffee wholesale or retail in
the Indian market at a price or prices higher than the price or prices fixed under this section.]

LAWGIST

# 16 Fixation of prices for sale of coffee