Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963

Bare Act · 1963

An Act to provide for the sound development of the export trade of India through quality control and inspection and for matters connected therewith.

Act number: 22 of 1963
Enacted: 24 August 1963
Contents: 38 sections

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Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – Establishment of Export Inspection Council
Section 4 – Director of Inspection and Quality Control
Section 5 – Functions of the Council
Section 6 – Powers of the Central Government in regard to quality control and inspection (preview)
Section 7 – Machinery for quality control and inspection (preview)
Section 8 – Power to recognise or establish marks to denote conformity with standard specifications (preview)
Section 9 – Power to obtain information from exporters, etc (preview)
Section 10 – Finance, accounts and audit (preview)
Section 10A – Power to enter and inspect (preview)
Section 10B – Power to search (preview)
Section 10C – Power to seize commodities, etc (preview)
Section 10D – Power to stop and seize conveyances (preview)
Section 10E – Search and seizure to be made in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (preview)
Section 10F – Confiscation (preview)
Section 10G – Confiscation of conveyance (preview)
Section 10H – Option to pay fine in lieu of confiscation (preview)
Section 10I – Liability to penalty (preview)
Section 10J – Confiscation or penalty not to interfere with other punishments (preview)
Section 10K – Adjudication (preview)
Section 10L – Giving of opportunity to the owner of goods etc (preview)
Section 10M – Appeal (preview)
Section 10N – Powers of revision (preview)
Section 10O – Powers of adjudicating and other authorities (preview)
Section 10P – Continuance of proceedings in the event of death or insolvency (preview)
Section 11 – Penalty (preview)
Section 11A – Penalty for contravention of order made by adjudicating authority or Appellate authority (preview)
Section 11B – Offences by officers and employees of agency, etc (preview)
Section 11C – Correction of clerical or arithmetical mistakes (preview)
Section 12 – Offences by companies (preview)
Section 13 – Delegation of powers (preview)
Section 14 – Procedure for prosecution (preview)
Section 15 – Officers and employees of agency to be public servants (preview)
Section 16 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
Section 16A – Suspension, etc., of operation of the provisions of the Act (preview)
Section 17 – Power to make rules (preview)
Section 18 – Act to over-ride other enactments (preview)

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