Act Number: 31

Act Name: The Levy Sugar Price Equalisation Fund Act, 1976

Year: 1976

Enactment Date: 1976-02-16

Long Title: An Act to provide for the establishment, in the interest of the general public, of a fund to ensure that the price of levy sugar may be uniform throughout India and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Department: Department of Food and Public Distribution

Section 6: Right of buyer to claim refund.
    (1) Where any amount is credited to the Fund, a refund shall be made from the Fund to the buyer of levy sugar from whom any excess realisation was made by the producer or dealer:
     Provided that no buyer shall be entitled to claim a refund under this sub-section if he,--
         (a) being a wholesale dealer, had passed on the incidence of such excess over the controlled or fair price of levy sugar to the retail dealer by whom the price of such sugar was paid, or
         (b) being a retail dealer, had passed on the incidence of such excess over the controlled or fair price of levy sugar to the consumer by whom the price of such sugar was paid, 1 [or]
         1 [(c) being a person who is not a wholesale dealer or a retail dealer had passed on the incidence of such excess over the controlled or fair price of levy sugar to any other person as part of the price of any product in the manufacture of which such sugar has been used or, as the case may be, to the consumer by whom the price of such sugar was paid.]
     (2) Every application for refund under sub-section (1) shall be made to the Central Government within six months from the date on which the excess realisation, in relation to which such refund is claimed, is credited to the Fund, and every such application shall be in such form as may be prescribed and shall be accompanied by such documentary or other evidence as the applicant may furnish to establish that the excess realisation, in relation to which such refund is claimed, was made from him.
     (3) The Central Government shall, if satisfied, on a scrutiny of the claim made under sub-section (1), that an excess realisation was made from the claimant, direct that refund be made from the Fund to the claimant to the extent of the 2 [excess realisation made from him together with interest (if any) thereon credited to the Fund]:
     Provided that if the amount standing to the credit of the Fund is not sufficient to enable the Central Government to make the refund, such refund shall be made from the Central revenues.
Notes:
1. Ins. by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 23-8-1984).
2. Subs. by s. 5, ibid., for "excess realisation made from him" (w.e.f. 23-8-1984).
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