Meghalaya Commercial Crops Development Board Act, 1996
No: 6 Dated: May, 03 1997
THE MEGHALAYA COMMERCIAL CROPS DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACT, 1996
ACT 6 OF 1997
An Act To provide for setting up a Board for promoting the cultivation and processing And marketing of commercial crops in this State and for matters connected therewith Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Meghalaya in the Forty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title extent and Commencement:- (1) This Act maybe called the Meghalaya Commercial Crops Development Board Act, 1996
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Meghalaya
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may by notification in the official Gazette appoint.
2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise required-
(a) “Board” means the Meghalaya Commercial Crops Development Board constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(b) “Chief Executive Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer of the Board Appointed under sub-section (1) of Section 5;
(c) “commercial crops” include potatoes for processing broom stick, tezpatta, cotton, rubber, tea, coffee, cashewnut, black pepper, ginger, turmeric, betel leaf, arecanut citrus fruits, medicinal or aromatic plants and any crops as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette specify;
(d) “Commodity Board” means the Coffee Board, the Tea Board, the Rubber Board or as the case may be, Spices Board set up by the Central Government;
(e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules or, as the case may be, by regulations;
(f) “regulations” means regulations made by the Board under this Act;
(g) “rules” means rules made by the State Government under this Act;
(h) “section” means a section of this Act;
(i) “State” means the State of Meghalaya; and
(j) “State Government” means the Government of the State of Meghalaya
3. Constitution of the Board:- (1) There shall be constituted by the State Government by notification the Official Gazette a Board to be called the Meghalaya Commercial Crops Development Board from such data a s may be specified in the notification.
(2) The Board shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with powers to acquire, hold, mortgage and dispose of property and to enter into contract and may by the said name sue and be sued.
(3) The headquarters of the Board shall be at Shillong or at such other place in the State a s the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette specify