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  "title": "PUNJAB COTTON CONTROL (VALIDATION OF TRANSPORTATION FEE) ACT, 1974",
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  "text": "THE PUNJAB COTTON CONTROL (VALIDATION OF \r\nTRANSPORTATION FEE) ACT, 1974 \r\n(XI of 1974) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title and extent \r\n2. Validation of transportation fee under West Punjab Act IV of 1949 and \r\nBahawalpur Cotton Control Act, 1949 \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB COTTON CONTROL (VALIDATION OF TRANSPORTATION \r\nFEE) ACT, 1974 \r\n(XI of 1974) \r\n[25th October, 1974] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto validate the levy, charging, collection and realisation of transportation fee under \r\nthe West Punjab Cotton (Control) Act, 1949, and the Bahawalpur Cotton (Control) \r\nAct, 1949. \r\nPreamble.– WHEREAS it is expedient to validate the levy, charging, collection and \r\nrealisation of transportation fee under the West Punjab Cotton (Control) Act, 1949 \r\nand the Bahawalpur Cotton (Control) Act, 1949; \r\n It is hereby enacted as follows:– \r\n1. Short title and extent.– (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Cotton Control \r\n(Validation of Transportation Fee) Act, 1974. \r\n (2) It extends to the whole of the Punjab. \r\n2. Validation of transportation fee under West Punjab Act IV of 1949 and \r\nBahawalpur Cotton Control Act, 1949. – \r\n2\r\n[(1)] Notwithstanding any omission or \r\nanything to the contrary contained in the West Punjab Cotton (Control) Act, 1949, or \r\nthe Bahawalpur Cotton (Control) A ct, 1949 (both since repealed) or the rules made \r\nthereunder, or anything to the contrary contained in any decree, judgement or order \r\nof any court or other authority, the transportation fee levied, charged, collected or \r\nrealised under the provisions of the above said Acts shall be deemed to have been \r\nvalidly levied, or as the case may be, charged, collected or realised. \r\n \r\n3\r\n[(2) Where any fee referred to in sub -section (1) has not been paid or \r\nrealised before the coming into force of this Act, or if so paid or  realised, has been \r\nrefunded or adjusted against other fees payable under the above said Acts or the \r\nPunjab Cotton Control Ordinance, 1966, the same shall be recoverable in \r\naccordance with the provisions of the Punjab Cotton Control Ordinance, 1966 \r\n(Ordinance No. XX of 1966).] \r\n                                                 \r\n1This Act was passed by the Punjab Assembly on 7th October, 1974; assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on 25th \r\nOctober, 1974; and, published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25th October, 1974, pages 1356-A to 1356-B. \r\n2Proviso omitted and r enumbered as sub -section (1) by the Punjab Cotton Control (Validation of Transportation Fee) \r\n(Amendment) Act, 1976 (VIII of 1976); and published in the Gazette of Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated 19.4.1976, s.2. \r\n3Added by the Punjab Cotton Control (Validation of Transportation Fee) (Amendment) Act, 1976 (VIII of 1976); and published in \r\nthe Gazette of Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated 19.4.1976, s.2.",
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