Rule, 1975

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WOOL GRADING AND MARKING RULES

1. Short title and application: (j) "Mixed wool (clipped-carded)" means clipped wool with an admixture of carded wool up to 25 per cent; (1) These rules may be called the Wool Grading and Marking Rules, 1975.

(k) "mixed wool (clipped pulled)" means clipped wool with an admixture of pulled wool up to 25 per cent;

(2) They shall apply to un-manufactured wool obtained from sheep in any part of India and to wool produced in India.

(l) "processed wool", in relation to any grade designation of wool, means wool which has been subjected to a mechanical process of manufacture or pre manufacture except carding and ginning done for cleaning purposes;

2. Definitions.- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:--

(a) "authorised packer" means a person holding a certificate of authorisation issued under sub- rule (1) of rule 3 of the General Grading and Marking Rules 1937; (m) "pulled wool", in relation to any grade designation of wool, means wool which has been removed from the pelts slaughtered sheep by pulling out the fibers with or without the aid of salt or depilatory solutions;

(b) "carded", in relation to any grade designation of wool, means wool which has been subjected to the process of carding for eliminating burrs or sticks; (n) "Schedule", means a schedule appended to these rules; (c) "carded wool" means wool containing an admixture of more than 25 per cent of any wool which is carded; (o) "Scoured wool", means wool which has been subjected to mechanical scouring with a detergent in a scouring plant; (cc) "Certificate of Authorisation" means the Certificate of Authorisation issued under rule 3 of the General Grading & Marking rules, 1937. (p) "South Indian tannery and Aden type wool" means wool removed from the pelts of unimproved mutton breed of sheep from the States of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mysore and Tamilnadu and from the country Aden, by pulling out fibbers from skins which have been pasted with or soaked in a depilatory solution of slaked lime;

(d) "Clipped", in relation to any grade designation of wool, means wool obtained from the body of sheep by shearing with a pair of hand shears or a shearing machine;

(d) "count" means number given to wool indicating its fineness and spin ability.

(q) "tannery wool (limed)" means wool removed from the pelts of slaughtered sheep with the aid of slaked lime as a depilatory;

(e) "ginned", in relation to any grade designation of wool, means short wool fibers recovered from burrs (Scissor out from burry raw wool) by passing them through a ginning machine; (r) "diameter/fineness" means fibre width or mean fibre diameter as prescribed in Schedule VI-A. (f) "hill (pahari) wool" means wool known in the trade as pahari wool; 3. Grade designations. --- The grade designations to indicate the characteristics and quality of wool of specified trade descriptions shall be those set out in column 1 of Schedules I to VI-A.

(g) "hill (pahari) wool (clipped)" means such wool obtained by clipping from living sheep;

(h) "hill (pahari) wool (pulled)" means such wool obtained from the pelts of slaughtered sheep by pulling out the fibers either with or without the aid of salt or depilatory solutions;

4. Characteristics of various grade designation.-

(1) The special characteristics of the various grade designations shall be as set out against each designation in columns 2,3 and 4 of Schedules I to VI-A". (i) "Lot" means the quantity of wool, the quality of which is determined by drawing a representative sample from that quantity and analyzing that sample as per prescribed procedure;

(2) The general characteristics of the various grade designations shall be as under:-

(i) Wool of the trade description Indian "clipped wool" shall be free from ginned, carded, pulled, limed, bleached and processed wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre or moth infested/burnt wool,

(xi) Wool of the various trade descriptions shall be reasonably free from burrs, thorns, sticks, sand, dust or any other extraneous matter and shall also be dry in feel and homogeneous in characters.

(ii) Wool of the trade description Indian "Pulled wool" shall be free from clipped, carded, ginned, limed, bleached and processed wool, wool waste or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre or moth infested/burnt wool.

5. Grade designation mark - The grade designation mark shall consist of a label:-

(a) bearing a design as shown in Schedule VII and

(iii) Wool of the trade description “South Indian tannery wool (limed)" shall be free from clipped, ginned, carded, pulled, bleached and processed wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre or

(b) Indicating;

(i) place and date of packing;

(ii) signature of the Inspecting Officer;

(iii) grade;

(iv) colour; (iv) Wool of the trade description "South Indian tannery and Aden type wool" shall be free from clipped, ginned, carded, pulled, bleached and processed wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre of

(vi) count;

(vii) place and date of marking;

(viii) signature of Inspecting Officer. (v) Wool of the trade description, Indian "mixed wool (clipped pulled)" shall be free from ginned, pulled, limed, bleached and processed wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre or moth infested/burnt wool,

6. Baling and marking.-- Baling and marking of wool shall be done at wool pressing centers or ports according to the instructions issued, from time to time, by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India.

7. Inspection.-- Grade designation of bales shall be declared after testing samples of wool for colour, type and yield in either of the two Wool Testing Laboratories of the Directorate of Marketing & Inspection at Bombay and Jamnagar.

(vi) Wool of the trade description, Indian "mixed wool (clipped pulled)" shall be free from ginned, limed, carded, bleached, and processed wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre moth

(vii) Wool of the trade description, Indian "hill (pahari) wool (clipped)” shall be free from ginned, carded, pulled, limed, plains’ clipped, bleached, and processed wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibber or moth infested/burnt wool.

(a) The colour of wool of the various grade designations shall be as prescribed in Schedules I to VI.

(b) The colour of the sample drawn in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India from time to time shall be compared with the replica of the boxed wool fibers colour standards and the colour of the fibre in the lot shall be taken to be the colour of the boxed wool fibre colour standard to which the colour of the sample most nearly approximates.

(viii) Wool of the trade description, Indian "hill (pahari) wool (pulled)" shall be free from ginned, limed, carded, bleached, plains’- pulled or clipped and processed wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibber or moth infested/burnt wool,

(ix) Wool of the trade description, Indian "ginned" wool shall be free from carded, pulled, limed and bleached wool, wool waste, or any other animal or vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre or

(c) If the colour of the sample is found to be deeper than pale yellow, the colour of the fibre in the lot shall be taken to be yellow. If the sample cannot be classified under any of the co lour groups, it shall be taken to be all coloured. (x) Wool of the trade description, "scoured wool" shall be free from any animal other than sheep and vegetable fibre or synthetic fibre or moth infested/burnt wool,

9. Laboratory scoured yield per cent of wool.

(a) The yield of laboratory scoured wool of the various grade designations shall be as prescribed in Schedules I to VI.

(b) No wool having a yield less than the minimum prescribed under column 3 of the said Schedules for any grade designation shall be allowed for export.

(c) The percentage of yield of laboratory scoured wool shall be determined in accordance with the methods in force from time to time.

10. Vegetable matter:-

(a) The percentage of vegetable matter present in wool of the various grade designations shall be as specified in Schedules I to VI.

(b) No wool containing vegetable matter in excess of the percentage specified shall be allowed for export.

(c) The percentage of vegetable matter shall be determined in the manner approved by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India.

11. Type: - The type of the wool shall be determined by examining the sample drawn for colour as specified in rule 8.

12. Method of packing :- The wool shall be press-packed in bales with complete covering of new gunny cloth and secured with sufficient number of iron hoops, tightly placed around the bale of customary commercial weights of 100 kgs. to 200 kgs.

13. Method of marking :- The grade designation mark shall be applied only on full or half pressed bales, as the case may be, in a manner approved by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India:

Provided that an authorised packer may stamp or write his private trade mark on the bale or package, if such private trade mark represents the same colour; quality and grade of wool, as that indicated on the Agmark label and in the Certificate of Agmark Grading and is duly approved by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India to that effect.

14. Certificate of Grading:-

(1) A Certificate of Agmark Grading shall be issued by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or an officer authorised by him in this behalf on a written request from the authorised packer.

(2) The Certificate of Agmark Grading shall be issued in the form given in Schedule VIII.

(3) In the case of lots of scoured wool, a conditioning certificate shall be issued by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or an officer authorised by him in this behalf as an appendix to the Certificate of Agmark Grading.

15. “Special conditions of authorisation —

(1) Wool of one grade only shall be packed in one lot.

(2) The under mentioned conditions shall be the conditions of every Certificate of Authorisation issued for the purpose of these rules, namely:-

(a) the premises of wool merchants and baling presses shall be clean and tidy and shall provide adequate space, facilities for cleaning, sorting, baling, weighing, storage, official inspection and marking of wool;

(b) all instructions regarding method of sampling, testing, marking and inspection of wool before and after the pressing and maintenance of records thereof, issued by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India from time to time shall be strictly observed by all concerned;

(c) grade designation marks shall only be applied to the articles mentioned in the Certificate of Authorisation and at the premises therein mentioned;

(d) during the operation of the Certificate of Authorisation, the holder there of shall, at all reasonable times, give access to the premises named therein to any person duly authorised by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central Government and shall afford him facilities for ascertaining that marking is being correctly performed;

(e) the holder of the Certificate of Authorisation shall keep a record of the number of packages marked with each grade designation mark and shall permit any person duly authorised by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central Government to examine the records;

(f) the holder of the Certificate of Authorisation shall permit any duly authorised person by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central Government to take samples of any graded produce or to open and inspect any package bearing a grade designation mark, provided that all samples shall be paid for;

(g) any person authorised in this behalf by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by the Central Government may cancel or remove a grade designation mark from a graded produce (should such produce be found by such person as not to comply with the definition of quality prescribed for that article; provided that whenever grade designation marks are removed from graded produce belonging to distributors, and not to authorised packers, the latter shall, when so directed by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India, make good to the former any loss sustained as result of the removal of the grade designation mark, the loss being estimated on the basis of the additional value that properly graded produce would have obtained in the market over and above the current market value of the corresponding quantity of the upgraded product);

(h) all the rules made under the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking ) Act, 1937 (and all instructions regarding methods of sampling, analysis, submission of periodical returns, etc., which may be issued from time to time, by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India), shall be observed;

(i) any Certificate of Authorisation may be cancelled, revoked, modified or suspended by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or by any other person authorised by the Central Government in that behalf, provided that 14 days notice in writing shall be given to the Certificate holder at the address stated on the Certificate of Authorisation and an opportunity given him for showing cause why his Certificate of Authorisation shall not be cancelled, revoked, modified or suspended;

(j) any holder of a Certificate of Authorisation may, with the written consent of the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India, use a replica of the Agmark design on his business papers and catalogues;

(k) any stencil, rubber stamp, punch or other instrument or label required for marking graded produce in the prescribed manner shall be obtained only from the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India, or a person authorised by him, on payment of such charges as the Central Government may, from time to time, fix in this behalf, shall be kept in safe custody by the holder of the Certificate of Authorisation, and shall, so far as may be, be returned to the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or such authorised person when the Certificate of Authorisation ceases to be valid;

(l) the issue or use of grade designation mark labels or any stencil, rubber stamp, punch or other instrument required for marking graded produce in the prescribed manner may be withheld or withdrawn by the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India or a person authorised by him in this behalf without any notice, for such period as he may consider expedient in the interest of better marketing, if he is satisfied or has reasons to believe that the authorised packer is not applying, or is not likely to apply, grade designation marks correctly : and

(m) the holder of a Certificate of Authorisation shall pay such charges as may be prescribed by the Central Government from time to time, towards the expenses incurred in connection with measures for enforcing the quality control of scheduled articles marked with grade designation marks including testing of samples and inspection of such articles or with any publicity work carried out to promote the sale of any class of such articles.”

SCHEDULE I

(See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Clipped and Mixed Wools Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ------------------------------------------ Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool

A. CLIPPED

White White over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Tinged Tinged Over 77 White White Over 80 5% Over 85 Over 90 Pale Pale Over 70 Yellow Yellow Over 77 Over 80 5% Over 85 Yellow Yellow Over 90 Colored Colored Over 70 Over 75 5% Over 80

B. MIXED

White White over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Tinged Tinged Over 74 White White Over 77 5% Pale Pale Over 80 Yellow Yellow Over 85 Yellow Yellow over 90 Colored Colored Over 70 Explanation:- The term ‘Mixed’ shall mean Over 75 5% admixture of pulled wool and/or carded wool with Over 80 clipped wool. It shall be declared as Mixed if the admixture is in excess of 10%. If the percentage of admixture of pulled and/or carded wool exceeds 25%, it shall be declared as pulled wool or carded wool, as the case may be depending upon the type of admixture.

SCHEDULE II

(See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Pulled Wool Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ----------------------------------------- Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool

A. CLIPPED

Pulled White White over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Pulled Tinged Tinged Over 77 White White Over 80 5% Over 85 Over 90 Pulled pale Pale Over 74 Yellow Yellow Over 77 Over 80 5% Over 85 Pulled Yellow over 90 Pulled Coloured Coloured Over 70 Over 75 Over 80 5% Explanation : "Pulled Wool" means other than limed pulled wool"

SCHEDULE III

(See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Tannery Wool (Limed) Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ------------------------------------------ Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool

(a) Wool other than South Indian Tannery and Aden Type Limed White White over 75 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% over 80 5% and upto 5%, it shall be indicated in the over 85 Certificate of Agmark Grading over 90 Limed Tinged White Tinged Over 72/1/2 White Over 75 5% Over 80 Over 85 Limed pale Yellow Pale Yellow Over 90 Limed Yellow Yellow Limed Coloured Coloured Over 65 Over 70 Over 75 5% Over 80

(b) South Indian Tannery and Aden Type Wool Tannery White White Over 60 Over 65 Tannery Tinged White Tinged White Over 70 5% Over 75 Over 80 Tannery Pale Yellow Pale Yellow Tannery Yellow Yellow Tannery Coloured Coloured Over 55 Over 60 Over 65 5% Over 70 Over 75

SCHEDULE IV

(See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Hill (Pahari) Wool, Greasy Clipped and Pulled Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre -------------------------------------------- Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool Hill White White Over 60 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% Pulled Hill White Over 65 and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the Over 70 5% Certificate of Agmark Grading Hill Tinged White Pulled Hill Tinged Tinged White Over 75 White Hill Coloured Coloured Over 55 Pulled Hill Coloured Over 60 5% Over 65 Over 70

SCHEDULE V

(See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Ginned Wool Grade Colour of Special Characteristics Designation fibre ------------------------------------------ Laboratory Maximum Remarks Scoured yield vegetable per cent of matter wool Ginned White White Over 80 If the vegetable matter content is over 3% Over 85 5% and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the Over 90 Certificate of Agmark Grading Ginned Tinged White Tinged White Over 77 Over 80 5% Over 85 Over 90 Ginned Pale Yellow Pale Yellow Over 74 Over 77 5% Ginned Yellow Yellow Over 80 Over 85 Over 90 Ginned Coloured Coloured Over 70 Over 75 5% Over 80

SCHEDULE VI

(See Rules 3,4,8,9 and 10) Grade Designation and Special Characteristics of Indian Scoured Wool Grade Colour of Laboratory Maximum Remarks Designation fiber Scoured yield vegetable percentage matter Scoured White White Over 95% 5% 1. If the vegetable matter is over 3% Scoured Tinged White Tinged White and up to 5%, it shall be indicated in the Scoured Pale Yellow Pale Yellow Certificate of Agmark Grading. Scoured Yellow Yellow 2. Any Wool having percentage conditioned Scoured Coloured Coloured weight less than the minimum prescribed under column 3 shall not be allowed for export.

(1) "The net weight and the Conditioned weight of the lot in the lots of the scoured wool shall also be indicated in the Certificate of Agmark grading in kg."

(2) "The conditioned weight of a wool lot in kg. shall be declared for a specific country if the packer declared the name of the country to which the lot (wool) is consigned." IS : 1349-1964

SCHEDULE VI-A

[See Rules2(dd), 2(r), 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10] ***Fineness grades of Indian Woods Count Range for average fibre diameter in microns 48 S Under 34.40 44 S 34.41 to 36.20 40 S 36.21 to 38.60 36 S 38.61 to 40.80 [Coarser than 36S] Over 40.81 * Schedule I to VI *** IS : 5910-1977

SCHEDULE VII

(See Rule 5) Grade Designation Mark to be applied to wool bales shall contain the following design Sr. No. W........................................................................... Place, and Date of Packing ................................................... (Signature of Inspecting Officer) Grade ................................................................. Colour.................................................................. Yield Percentage................................................... Count.................................................................. Place and Date.................................................... of Marking (Signature of Inspecting Officer.)

SCHEDULE VIII

[See Rule 14(2)] Government Of India Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Department of Rural Development)

DIRECTORATE OF MARKETING & INSPECTION

Certificate of Agmark Grading No. ........................................................ Certified that the wool bales, the particulars of which are given below have been graded in accordance with the Wool Grading and Marking Rules,1956.

Name of the authorised packer........................................................ Number and date of previous certificate, if any in respect of bales mentioned below :

PARTICULARS OF BALES

Number of bales :

Description of bales with particulars of grades and marks ............................................... Agmark Grade ........................................................ Date of Inspection .................................................. Yield percentage .................................................... Count .................................................................... Type ...................................................................... Colour ................................................................... Agmark label numbers from ........................... to .............................. Authorised packer's shipping numbers from ..................... to ..................... Authorised packer's marks .................................. Remarks, if any ............................................... (Signature of the Officer with stamp) Place :

Date :

Original meant of Customs use.

Duplicate not meant for Customs use.

Office copy.

SCHEDULE IX

[See Rule 14(3)] Government Of India (Ministry of Rural Reconstruction)

DIRECTORATE OF MARKETING & INSPECTION

(Stamp of the Issuing Office) Conditioning Certificate Test Identification Wool Type : Scoured wool Numbers of bales :

Number of Agmark labels issued :

Total weight :

Gross (Kg.) :

Net (Kg.) :

Test results

1. Core sample weight : Gms

3. Loss : Gms

4. Moisture content : %

5. Regain : %

6. Net weight, Oven dry : Kg. or %

7. Official Regain of % : Kg. or % Invoice weight as per test : Kg. or % Gain : Kg. or % Original net weight : Kg. or 100% Date: (Signature of the Officer with stamp.)

(1) Principal rules published as S.O. 4096 dated 4-9-1975 in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3 (ii) dated 20-9-1975.

(2) First amendment published as S.O. 1671 dated 24-2-1982 in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3 (ii) dated 8-5-1982.

(3) Second amendment published as S.O. 97 dated28-12-1983 in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3 (ii) date 14-1-1984.

SCHEDULE I

SCHEDULE VII

SCHEDULE VIII

PARTICULARS OF BALES

SCHEDULE IX

RAW MEAT (CHILLED OR FROZEN) GRADING AND MARKING RULES

SCHEDULE V

SCHEDULE VI

III.Slaughter Hall V.Vehicular Areas for trucks VIII.Supply of Water IX.Accessibility for cleaning and maintenance X.Non-acceptable Materials

SCHEDULE VII

Provisions this rule answers to

Read out of the instrument itself: an enabling provision is one it says it was made under, which is the power it rests on. The rest it names without resting on.

Other instruments under the same Act

All of the The Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937