Power to specify commodities which are required to be packed in jute packaging material
Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987 deals with power to specify commodities which are required to be packed in jute packaging material. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Central Government may, if it is satisfied, after considering the recommendations made to it by the Standing Advisory Committee, that it is necessary so to do in the interests of production of raw jute and jute pack The Act came into force on 14 May 1987.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Central Government may, if it is satisfied, after considering the recommendations made to it by the Standing Advisory Committee, that it is necessary so to do in the interests of production of raw jute and jute packaging material, and of persons engaged in the production thereof, by order published in the Official Gazette, direct, from time to time, that such commodity or class of commodities or such percentage thereof, as may be specified in the order, shall, on and from such date, as may be specified in the order, be packed for the purposes of its supply or distribution in such jute packaging material as may be specified in the order:
Provided that until such time as the Standing Advisory Committee is constituted under section 4, the Central Government shall, before making any order under this sub-section, consider the matters specified in sub-section (2) of section 4, and any order so made shall cease to operate at the expiration of three months from the date on which the Standing Advisory Committee makes its recommendations.
(2) Every order made under sub-section (1) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the order or both Houses agree that the order should not be made, the order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that order.
Section 3, The Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987 (Act 10 of 1987).
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Related judgements & precedents
These are some judgments that construed this section, and hold precedence value. They hold authority on how to read, interpret and use this section.
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Union of India v. Indian Jute Mills Associations
Court's Decision & Legal Precedent
SC set aside Calcutta HC directions that Standing Advisory Committee must hear jute growers/workers before s.3 recommendations; Act has no hearing mandate; Dalmia Cement desirability observation is not a positive hearing duty. Also set aside HC obiter barring progressive dilution/repeal roadmap as outside pleadings.
On this section: Applied s.3: Central Government may issue compulsory jute-packaging orders after considering SAC recommendations; SAC need not give statutory hearing to growers/workers.
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Associated Cement Cos. Ltd. v. Union of India
Court's Decision & Legal Precedent
Cement packaging orders under s.3 stood; Jute Commissioner SCN for non-compliance cannot itself impose fine — fine for s.5 contravention only after criminal trial.
On this section: Applied s.3 packaging directions as the measure whose breach triggers s.5/s.9 criminal fine, not administrative levy by Jute Commissioner.
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Judgments citing this section
These may be obiter dicta or a precedent, for you to study. These are the judgments where this section is quoted.
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… Also was the prayer to direct the respondents to remove the sugar from the purview of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987. 2.1 By the said Notification dated 26th December 2023 of the Ministry of Textiles, issued in exercise of powers conferred under Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987 - 4 - (hereinafter referred to as 'JPM Act'), it is provided that 100% food grains and 20% sugar of the total production shall be required to be packed in jute packaging material manufactured in …
Made under this section, and citing it
4 instruments state that it was made under this provision — the power to make it comes from here, so a change to any of them changes what this section requires in practice. Newest first.
Another 4 instruments name this provision in its title or its text without being made under it.
Questions about Section 3
What have the courts held on Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act?
Union of India v. Indian Jute Mills Associations (05 May 2005) is the leading judgment on this section among those set out below: Applied s.3: Central Government may issue compulsory jute-packaging orders after considering SAC recommendations; SAC need not give statutory hearing to growers/workers. Another 1 judgment on this section is set out below, 1 of them from the Supreme Court. They run from 2005 to 2013.
How do I find court cases under Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act?
In judgments and charge sheets this section is written several ways, and each form finds a different set of orders. These search the full text of every order eCourtsIndia holds, best matches first: Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act 3, section 3 Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act. Each opens the full list of orders on eCourtsIndia, where it can be narrowed by court, year and outcome. 2 reported judgments on this section are set out on this page, beginning with Union of India v. Indian Jute Mills Associations (05 May 2005).
What should I read with Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, and has it changed?
Its own text turns on section 4 (Constitution of Standing Advisory Committee), so none of them can safely be read on its own. 4 other provisions in this corpus refer back to it. The rules and notifications made under it are where it actually bites, and there are 4: most recently The Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, 1987 (2023), then Order, 30/11/2018 (2018), and 2 more.
When did Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act come into force?
Section 3 of the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act, cited as Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) Act 3, came into force on 14 May 1987, having been enacted on 09 May 1987. It is in force as at the date shown on this page.
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