The Odisha Essential Articles Control and Requisitioning (Temporary Powers) Act, 1955
Preamble
CON Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. Date : 18th June I955 Orissa Act No. 7 OF 1955 *THE ORISSA ESSENTIAL ARTICLES CONTROL AND REQUISITIONING (TEMPORARY POWERS) ACT 1955 [Received the assent of the President on the 5th June 1955, first published in an extraordinary issue of the Orissa Gazette, dated the 18th June 1955 ] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTIINUANCE DURING A LIMITED PERIOD OF POWERS TO CONTROL THE PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, SUPPLY, DISTRIBUTION, TRANSPORT AND PRICES OF ESSENTIAL ARTICLES AND TRAD AND COMMERCE THEREIN AND REQUISITIONING OF PROPERTY WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the continuance during a limited period of powers to control the production, processing, supply, distribution, transport and prices of eesential articles and of trade and commerce therein and for requisitioning of property ; It is hereby enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Sixth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :-
Sections
Type to filter. 18 sections.
- 1Short title, extent, commencement and duration
- 2Definations
- 3
- 4Power of requisitioning and aquisition
- 5Payment of compensation
- 6Release from requisition
- 7Delegation of power
- 8Effect of orders in consistent with other enactment
- 9Mode of publication
- 10Penalties
- 11Abbetment and assistance of contravensions
- 12Offences by corporations
- 13Cognizance of offences
- 14Burden of proof
- 15Savings to orders
- 16Protection of action taken under this Act
- 17Power to make rules
- 18Savings
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Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. Every one of the 18 sections of this Act has its own page. This page is not a substitute for legal advice.