Essential Commodities Act, 1955

Essential Commodities Act, 1955

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This 2024 edition of The Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (Act 10 of 1955) reproduces the statute verbatim, fully incorporating the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 (22 of 2020, w.e.f. 5-6-2020) which deregulates cereals, pulses, onions & oils—subject to extraordinary-price-rise triggers.


Bound in for complete context:


Essential Commodities (Special Provisions) Act, 1981


Prevention of Blackmarketing & Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980 (as extended to J-&-K, 2019)


Colliery Control Order, 2000 & Colliery Control Rules, 2004


Concise short comments explain stock-limit orders, agri-trade 2020 exemptions, and preventive-detention overlap.


Core statutory coverage

• Declaration of essential commodity — notification power, scheduled fertilisers, LPG and petroleum products.

• Stock limits & price control — extraordinary-price-rise formula (100 % / 50 % retail inflation triggers).

• Search, seizure & confiscation — Collector adjudication, speedy disposal and food-security exemptions.

• Detention & prosecution — 1980 Blackmarketing Act preventive-detention powers; cognisability & bailability matrix.

• Coal supply & grading — Colliery orders on linkage, washery and e-auction corridors.


This edition is particularly suited for

• Agri-traders, warehousing companies & FMCG supply-chain heads.

• District Collectors & food-supply inspectors invoking stock-limit orders.

• Energy & coal-linkage counsel, commodity-law practitioners.

• AIBE candidates and students in food-security & market-regulation law.

 

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