Section 3
(1) Every trader and every owner shall each year prepare and deliver or cause to be prepared and delivered to the Economic Adviser a return, in the form prescribed by rules made under this Act, of the quantity of cotton of different varieties in his possession on the prescribed date.
3. (1) Every trader and every owner shall each year prepare and deliver or cause to be prepared and delivered to the Economic Adviser a return, in the form prescribed by rules made under this Act, of the quantity of cotton of different varieties in his possession on the prescribed date.
(2) Every such return shall be delivered or sent by post to the Economic Adviser within seven days of the prescribed date.