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THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE CESS ACT, 1940 THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE CESS ACT, 1940 ACT No. XXVII OF 1940 [15th April, 1940] [An Act to provide for setting up and financing a Committee for promoting scientific, technological, social and economic research and education relating to food, agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries.] ( Subs. by the Agricultural Produce Cess (Amdt.) Act, 1950 (12 of 1950), s. 2, for the original long title.) [WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for setting up and finan cing a Committee for promoting scientific, technological, social and economic research and education relating to food, agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries;] (Subs. ibid., s. 3, for the original preamble.) It is hereby enacted as follows:‑ [6A. Committee to promote research--------( Ss. 6A to 6D ins. ibid., s. 10.) The Committee shall adopt such measures as it may consider necessary or expedient for‑ (i) promoting scientific, technological, social and economic research and education relating to food, agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries; (ii) co‑ordinating research into matters relating to food, agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries and deter mining in what order schemes of research shall be pursued; (iii) acquiring and disseminating knowledge relating to food, agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries; and (iv) discharging such other functions as may, by notification in the official Gazette, be assigned to it by the Central Government.