SugarCane Act, 1934

The Sugar-cane Act, 1934 regulates the price at which sugar-cane can be purchased for use in sugar factories, aiming to give sugar-cane growers a fair price. Section 2 defines a "factory" as premises where twenty or more workers were employed in the preceding twelve months and where a manufacturing process connected to sugar production is carried on with the aid of power, and "sugar" as any form containing more than ninety percent sucrose.

Section 3 gives the Provincial Government power to declare any area a "controlled area" by official notification, and within such areas, to fix minimum prices for sugar-cane purchases intended for factory use, and to prohibit purchasing sugar-cane for factories from anyone other than the actual grower or a licensed purchasing agent. Section 4 requires at least thirty days' advance public notice of a draft notification before any minimum price or purchase restriction takes effect, giving the public a chance to raise objections or suggestions that the government must consider.

Section 5 sets the penalty for buying sugar-cane below the fixed minimum price, or in violation of the purchasing-agent restriction: a fine up to two thousand rupees. Section 6 requires that prosecutions under Section 5 only proceed on a complaint authorised by the District Magistrate.

Section 7 gives the Provincial Government broad rule-making power, including rules for preliminary inquiries, establishing Advisory Committees, licensing purchasing agents and their fees, organising growers into selling societies, designating administering authorities, and maintaining records -- with rule violations (where no other penalty applies) punishable by a fine up to two thousand rupees. Section 8 separately allows the Provincial Government, after prior publication, to make rules exempting certain factories or classes of factories from the Act altogether.

This is an old 1934 law, still structurally intact per the extract with minimal amendment beyond terminology updates ("Provincial Government" replacing "L.G."), and remains a foundational framework for sugar-cane price regulation in Pakistan; specific price figures and current administrative arrangements should be checked against the official current text.