This Act is enacted to regulate, supervise and control the manufacture, sale and distribution of fish feed. The Commissioner of Fisheries or any officer empowered by him shall be the Fish Feed Controlling Authority under this Act. The District Collector/District Fisheries Officer or any other Fisheries Department Officer not below the rank of Assistant Director of Fisheries empowered by the Controlling Authority shall be the Licensing Authority. The Government may establish the Fish Feed Quality Control Committee to advise the Controlling Authority on all matters relating to registration, licensing and control of fish feed business operations and to enforce the provisions of the Act. The Act further makes provisions, inter alia, for: issuance of license/endorsement, classification of fish feed business operations, standards to be maintained for fish feed, feed analysis laboratories, fish feed inspector, offences and penalties.
Индия · 2020-12-23