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[Repealed.]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

If any curing establishment operates as such without a
licence, the owner shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

LAWGIST

# 37 Unlicensed curing establishment