Act Number: 37

Act Name: The National Dairy Development Board Act, 1987

Year: 1987

Enactment Date: 1987-09-15

Long Title: An Act to declare the institution known as the National Dairy Development Board in the State of Gujarat to be an institution of national importance and to provide for its incorporation and for the vesting in that body corporate of the undertakings of the Indian Dairy Corporation with a view to provide for the administration and the carrying on of the functions to be performed by the body corporate more effectively throughout the country and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Department: Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Section 38: Delegation of certain powers by Central Government.
    (1) The Central Government may, on the recommendation of the National Dairy Development Board, if satisfied that it is necessary so to do in the public interest, make any scheme for the purpose of enabling the National Dairy Development Board to undertake and perform any of the activities or functions of the Central Government relatable to dairy, foodstuffs and connected industries, particularly with reference to matters related to the development of the national milk grid by the regulation of the production, procurement, marketing, export-import, maintenance of standards or such like activities (including the collection and compilation of statistics and relevant data).
     (2) Every scheme made under sub-section (1) shall be published in the Official Gazette and may contain such conditions, restrictions or limitations as the Central Government may deem fit to impose.
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