Newsprint Control Order, 2004

C Central 2025

Company : Sol Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Website : www.courtkutchehry.com Newsprint Control Order, 2004 CONTENTS 1. Short title and commencement 2. Definitions 3. Power to requisition stocks 4. Accounts and returns 5. Power to collect information 6. Saving SCHEDULE 1 :- SCHEDULE 1 1 . White Printing Paper (excluding laid marked-paper) containing mechanical wood or bagasse pulp obtained by the mechanical pulping processes, that is to say 2. . 3. . 4. . 5. . Newsprint Control Order, 2004 In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 18-G of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), the Central Government hereby makes the following order, namely 1. Short title and commencement :- (a) Stone Ground Wood Process (SOW); (b) Pressurised Ground Wood Process (PGW); (c) Chemi Ground Wood Process (CGW); (d) Fine Ground Wood Process (FGW); (e) Refiner Mechanical Pulping (RMP); (f) Chemi Refiner Mechanical Pulping (CRMP); (g) Chemical Mechanical Pulping (CMP); (h) Semi Chemical Pulping (SCP); (i) Thermo Mechanical Pulping (TMP); (j) Chemi Thermo Mechanical Pulping (CTMP); (k) Thermal Refiner Mechanical Pulping (TRMP); (l) Tandem Thermo-Mechanical Pulping (TANDEM TMP); (m) Semi-Chemical Mechanical Pulping (SCMP); and (n) Cold Soda Refiner Mechanical Pulping (CSRMP) Conforming to Indian Standard requirements for newsprint paper specified by Bureau of Indian Standards. 2 \Definitions . In this order, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Act" means the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951); (b) "consumer of newsprint" means a printer or publisher of newspapers, periodicals, text-books of general interest who uses newsprint; (c) "authorised officer" means any person authorised by the Central Government to exercise the powers under Section 19 of the Act; (d) "dealer in newsprint" means an importer of newsprint and an agent appointed by any mill as specified in Item 4 of Schedule for distribution of their newsprint and a person authorised by the newspapers for taking deliveries of newsprint on their behalf; (e) "newsprint" means paper of any of the descriptions specified in the Schedule, which is used for printing and shall include odd size newsprint whether produced indigenously by any mill as specified in Item 4 of the Schedule or imported and certified to be as such by the authorised officer; (f) "reject newsprint" means any newsprint produced by any mill as specified in Item 4 of the Schedule which cannot be used by a printer or publisher on a rotary printing press on account of numerous joints or crushed central core in it or otherwise defective; (g)"Schedule" means the Schedule to this order. 3. Power to requisition stocks :- Glazed newsprint. 5 \Power to collect information . The authorised officer may, with a view to securing compliance with this order (i) call for information or statistics with a view to regulating or prohibiting any of the matters referred in clauses (a) to (/) of sub- section (2) of Section 18-G; (ii) order the production of any document, book, register or record in the possession and control of any person relating to the acquisition or disposal of newsprint. 6. Saving :- Nothing in this order shall apply to: (a) the acquisition or sale of newsprint manufactured by any mill as specified in Item 4 of the Schedule not exceeding 200 kilograms in weight in any one transaction; (c) sale of any kind of waste newsprint by any dealer in newsprint or the sale, acquisition, consumption or use of such newsprint by any consumer of newsprint. SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 1 1. White Printing Paper (excluding laid marked-paper) containing mechanical wood or bagasse pulp obtained by the mechanical pulping processes, that is to say :- (a) Stone Ground Wood Process (SOW); (b) Pressurised Ground Wood Process (PGW); (c) Chemi Ground Wood Process (CGW); (d) Fine Ground Wood Process (FGW); (e) Refiner Mechanical Pulping (RMP); (f) Chemi Refiner Mechanical Pulping (CRMP); (g) Chemical Mechanical Pulping (CMP); (h) Semi Chemical Pulping (SCP); (i) Thermo Mechanical Pulping (TMP); (j) Chemi Thermo Mechanical Pulping (CTMP); (k) Thermal Refiner Mechanical Pulping (TRMP); (l) Tandem Thermo-Mechanical Pulping (TANDEM TMP); (m) Semi-Chemical Mechanical Pulping (SCMP); and (n) Cold Soda Refiner Mechanical Pulping (CSRMP) Conforming to Indian Standard requirements for newsprint paper specified by Bureau of Indian Standards. 2. . :- White Printing Paper (excluding laid marked-paper) manufactured out of raw material furnish containing deinked recycled waste paper conforming to Indian Standard requirements for newsprint paper specified by the Bureau of Indian Standards. 3. . :- Glazed newsprint. 4. . :- 5. . :- Newsprint manufactured by any other mills notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette as Mill producing newsprint.

Act Metadata
  • Title: Newsprint Control Order, 2004
  • Type: C
  • Subtype: Central
  • Act ID: 11575
  • Digitised on: 13 Aug 2025