In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant, in the subject or context-

"bale" means any pressed package of cotton of whatever size or density ;

"cotton" means ginned or unginned cotton, or cotton waste;

"cotton ginning factory" means any place where cotton is ginned or where cotton fibre is separated from cotton seed by any process whatever involving the use of steam, water or other mechanical power or of electrical power;

"cotton pressing factory" means any factory as defined in the Indian Factories Act, 1911 (12 of 1911) in which cotton is pressed into bales ;

"cotton waste" means droppings, strippings, fly and other waste products of a cotton mill or of a cotton ginning factory or of a cotton pressing factory but does not include yarn waste;

"Indian Central Cotton Committee" means the Indian Central Cotton Committee constituted under the Indian Cotton Cess Act, 1923 (14 of 1923), and includes any sub-committee appointed by it to perform any function of the Indian Central Cotton Committee under this Act; and

"occupier" includes a managing agent or other person authorized to represent the occupier.

"prescribed" means prescribed by or under rules made under this Act.
'Act' means the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925.
'Section, means a section of the Act.

If the owner of any factory fails to comply with any provision of this section, which is applicable to the factory, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

Where the owner of a factory has been convinced under sub-section (3) the prescribed authority may serve on the owner of the factory an order in writing directing that such alterations shall be made in the factory, before a specified date, as in the opinion of the said authority are necessary to secure compliance with the provisions of sub-section (1) [sub-section (1-A)] or sub-section (2), as the case may be.

Where the alternations are not made in accordance with the order served under CI. (a) of this sub-section the prescribed authority may serve on the owner and on the occupier, if any, of the factory an order in writing directing that the work of ginning or pressing cotton in such factory shall be suspended until the alternations have been made in accordance with the order served under CI. (a) of this sub-section and the owner and the occupier if any, shall be jointly and severally liable to fine which may extend to fifty rupees for each day on which cotton is ginned or pressed in the factory in contravention of the order served under this clause.

Maintenance of Registers

The power of every cotton ginning factory shall cause to be maintained at the factory in such from, if any, as may be prescribed, a ginning register containing a record of all cotton ginned in the factory and of the names of the person for whom and the dates on which the cotton has been ginned and of the amount ginned for each person.
The owner of every cotton pressing factory shall cause to be maintained at the factory in such form, if any, as may be prescribed, a press register containing a daily record of the number of bales pressed in the factory, the serial number of each bale, and the name of the person for whom it has been pressed.

The owner or the person in charge of a cotton ginning or cotton pressing factory shall be bound to produce any ginning register or press register maintained under this section when required to do so by any person appointed by the State Government in this behalf and the owner or person in charge of any cotton pressing factory shall be bound to furnish to the Indian Central Cotton Committee, if so required by it in writing, a copy, certified as correct by the owner or person in charge of the factory, of the entry any press register maintained at the factory relating to any specified bale.

4. No register required to be maintained by this section shall be destroyed until after the expiration of three years from the date of the last entry therein.