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| (1) Where any scheduled agricultural product is sold under this Act by a producer, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner or for any authorized purchaser, if required so to do by the Commissioner, to deduct from the amount payable to such producer for the product so sold, such sums as may be due from that producer-
| | (a) to the Government-
| | | (i) as irrigation rates under the Irrigation Ordinance; or |
| (ii) as annual payments under the Land Development Ordinance; or |
| (iii) as premiums in respect of any policy of insurance under the Crop Insurance Act, No. 13 of 1961; or |
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| | (b) to any society registered under the Co-operative Societies Ordinance in respect of any loan or advance of monies obtained by such producer for any purpose connected with the cultivation of such agricultural product. | | |
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| (2) Any sum recovered under subsection (1) of this section shall-
| | (a) where such sum is due to the Government, be paid to the Commissioner, and the Commissioner shall credit such sum to the Consolidated Fund; and | | |
| | (b) where such sum is due to any society, be paid to that society. | | |
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| (3) Where any producer of any scheduled agricultural product has made default in the repayment of any loan or advance of monies obtained by such producer from any society registered under the Co-operative Societies Ordinance for any purpose connected with the cultivation of such product, the Commissioner or any authorized purchaser, if required so to do by the Commissioner, may, notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this Act, refuse to purchase such product from such producer unless such producer consents to the immediate recovery of the amounts due from him to such society out of the proceeds of the sale of such product. |
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