JAMMU AND KASHMIR SAFFRON ACT, 2007

The JAMMU AND KASHMIR SAFFRON ACT, 2007

Act ID:	200705
Act Number:	5
Enactment Date:	2007-02-21
Act Year:	2007
Short Title:	The JAMMU AND KASHMIR SAFFRON ACT, 2007
Long Title:	An Act to provide for regulating the quality of saffron and to ensure its genuineness for sale and export and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Department:	Department of Horticulture
Enforcement Date:	26-02-2007
Type:	STATE
Location:	Jammu and Kashmir

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Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 2. Definitions.
Section 3. Notification of Saffron Belts.
Section 4. Prohibition on conversion of land.
Section 5. Penalty for conversion.
Section 6. Registration.
Section 7. Regulation for stocking, sale and export of saffron of standard quality.
Section 8. Application, cancellation, fee payable and other matters relating to registration.
Section 9. Appeal.
Section 10. Prescription of grade designation.
Section 11. Compulsory grade designation.
Section 12. Quality control.
Section 13. Appeal.
Section 14. Phyto-Sanitary Certificate.
Section 15. Packing of Saffron.
Section 16. Import.
Section 17. Penalty for unauthorized marking with grade designation mark.
Section 18. Penalty for counterfeiting grade designation mark.
Section 19. Penalty for selling misgraded/misbranded saffron.
Section 20. Adulteration.
Section 21. Other Penalties.
Section 22. Offences by companies.
Section 23. Prosecution.
Section 24. Jurisdiction.
Section 25. Price control.
Section 26. Protection of actions taken in a good faith.
Section 27. Act to have overriding effect.
Section 28. Power to make rules.