(1) Without prejudice to any order made under Clause (d) of sub-section (2) of Section 16 the Cane
Commissioner may, after consulting the Factory and Cane-growers' Co- operative Society in the
manner to be prescribed:
(a) reserve any area (hereinafter called the reserved area); and
(b) assign any area (hereinafter called an assigned area),
for the purposes of the supply of cane to a factory in accordance with the provisions of Section 16
during 1[one or more crushing seasons as may be specified] and may likewise at any time cancel such
order or alter the boundaries of an area so reserved or assigned.
(2) Where any area has been declared as reserved area for a factory, the occupier of such factory
shall, if so directed by the Cane Commissioner, purchase all the cane grown in that area, which is
offered for sale to the factory.
(3) Where any area has been declared as assigned area for a factory, the occupier of such factory
shall, purchase such quantity of cane grown in that area and offered for sale to the factory as may be
determined by the Cane Commissioner.
(4) An appeal shall lie to the State Government against the order of the Cane Commissioner passed
under sub-section (1).
1 Substituted by Section 3 of U.P. Act no. XXI of 1956 with effect from 23.06.1956