Act Number: 22

Act Name: The Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for Production) Act, 1985

Year: 1985

Enactment Date: 1985-03-29

Long Title: An Act to provide for reservation of certain articles for exclusive production by handlooms and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Textiles

Department:

Section 5: Prohibition of production of articles exclusively reserved for handlooms.
    Where an order has been made under section 3 reserving any article or class of articles for exclusive production by handlooms, such article or class of articles shall not, on and from the date of reservation, be produced by any loom, other than handloom:
     Provided that any person who, immediately before the date of reservation of any article or class of articles, was engaged in the production of such article or class of articles in any loom, other than handloom may continue to be so engaged till the expiry of three months from the date of such reservation.
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