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Milk and Milk Product Order, 1992

Whereas the Central Government is of opinion that for maintaining and increasing the supply of liquid milk of the desired quality in interest of the general public, it is necessary to provide for regulating the production, supply and distribution of milk and milk product;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955), the Central Government hereby makes the following Order, namely:-

1.Short title, extent and commencement

1. This order may be called the Milk and Milk Product Order, 1992.
2. It extends to the whole of India.
3. It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

2.Definitions

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:-

1. "Act" means the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955)
2. "Board" means the Milk and Milk Product Advisory Board constituted under Paragraph 3;
3. "business in milk and milk product" means sale or purchase of milk or milk product and includes manufacturing, processing, handling or controlling of milk and milk product;
4. "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board
5. "Controller" means an Officer of the Central Government appointed under Paragraph 12
6. "milk" means milk of cow, buffalo,sheep, goat, or a mixture thereof, either raw or processed in any manner and includes pasteurised, sterilized, recombined, flavoured, acidified, skimmed, toned,double toned, standardised or full cream milk.
7. "milk product" means cream, malai, curd, yogurt, skimmed milk curd, shrikhand, paneer or channa, skimmed milk paneer or skimmed milk channa, cheese, processed cheese and cheese spread, ice cream, milk ices, condensed milk (sweetened and unsweetened), condensed skimmed milk (sweetened and unsweetened), whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, partly skimmed milk powder, khoya, rubri, kulfi, kulfa, casein, sweets made from khoya;paneer and channa, infant milk food, table butter, deshi butter, ghee or butter oil, and includes any other substance containing—on a dry weight basis not less than fifty per cent of milk solids (excluding added sugars), or any other substance declared by the Central Government, by notification as a milk product;
8. "Dairy establishment" means a place where milk collection, processing, manufacturing, storage and handling of Milk and Milk Product is carried out and any type of container or vessel which is used for storage and transportation of milk and milk product.
9. "milk producer" means a person owning or keeping or otherwise having control of cow, buffalo, sheep or goat for the production of milk intended for sale or for conversion thereof to any milk product;
10. "milk solid" means anhydrous constituents of milk and includes milk fat and non-fat milk constituents either singly or in combination in any proportion;
11. "registration certificate" means a registration certificate issued under this Order;
12. "Registering Authority" means an authority appointed or designated, subject to the provision of sub-paragraph (2) of Paragraph 31, by the Central Government to make registration and to issue registration certificates under this Order;
13. "Schedule" means a Schedule appended to this Order.

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