Section No : 1980 Revised version RUBBER CONTROLMarginal Notes1. This Act may be cited as the Rubber Control Act.2. Register of Estates and Register of Small Holdings.3. Returns to be furnished before registration.4. Determination of questions relating to registration.5. Amendment of registers.6. Registered proprietors to furnish returns in respect of certain matters periodically.7. Planting or replanting of rubber to be under the authority of a permit issued by the Controller.8. Applications for permits9. Rubber planting permits.10. Possession of rubber exceeding a prescribed quantity.11. Sale of rubber exceeding a prescribed quantity.12. Purchase of rubber exceeding a prescribed quantity.13. Licensed dealers.14. Furnishing of monthly return by licensed dealers.15. Record of rubber delivered to or from licensed premises.16. Scales to be kept in licensed premises.17. Declaration to be received with rubber delivered to licensed premises.18. Taking or making delivery, and storing, of rubber by licensed dealer-, [4. 16 of 1957.] 19. Licensed manufacturers20. Furnishing of monthly returns by licensed manufacturers21. Declaration to be received with rubber delivered to a licensed manufacturer.22. Licences and permits issued under the Rubber Thefts Prevention Ordinance, 1908.23. Export of rubber seed, &c24. Application for export permits.25. Export duty on rubber.26. Proceeds of export duty to be paid to Rubber Control Fund.27. Appeals.28. Contravention of this Act or of any regulation made thereunder to be an offence.29. Non-compliance with direction under this Act to be an offence.30. Resistance or obstruction of persons performing duties or exercising powers under this Act to be an offence.31. Making false declaration, return, or record to be an offence.32. Offence connected with declaration accompanying rubber delivered to a licensed dealer or to a licensed manufacturer.33. Offence connected with discrepancy in weight of rubber stocked and weight of rubber recorded.33A. Offence connected with rubber in possession of certain registered proprietors. [ 5, 16 of 1957.]34. Punishment for offences under this Act.34A. Transmission to Controller of proceedings on conviction of licensed dealer. [2,14 of 1961.] 35. Controller's sanction necessary for prosecution.35A. Compounding of offences. [ 3, 14 of 1961.]36. Establishment of Rubber Control Fund.37. Sums to be paid to the Rubber Control Fund.38. Sums to be paid to the Rubber Control Fund.39. Application of surplus in the Rubber Control Fund.39A. Accounts of the Rubber Control Fund. [ 2, 45 of 1957.]40. Establishment of Rubber Advisory Board.41. Duties of the Rubber Advisory42. Regulation43. Appointment of Controller and other officers.43A. Appointment of holders of pensionable posts in the public service to the staff of the Rubber Control Department. [ 3,45 of 1957.]44. Controller to be subject to general direction of the Minister.45. Delegation of Controller's powers.46. Controller's power to call for information47. Powers of Controller and certain officers in respect of estates, small holdings, and premises. [ 6, 16 of 1957.]48. Verification of returns, explanations and information.49. No stamp duty on declarations.50. Estimates of the income and expenditure of the Rubber Control Fund,51. Gratuity scheme.52. Interpretation.