State Act

The Goa Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007

5E. Declaring ware-house/silos/cold storage or other such structure or place as market sub-yard.— (1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the Government may, by notification declare warehouse/silos/cold storage or other such structure or place with infrastructure and facilities as prescribed, to function as market sub-yard. Explanation.— The expression ‘place’ under this sub-section shall include any structure, enclosure, open space, locality, street including pack house/cleaning, grading and processing unit, etc. (2) The owner of such warehouse/cold storage, or other such structure or ‘place’, as the case may be, desirous of declaration of such place as market sub-yard under sub-section (1), shall apply to the 23[State Marketing Officer or such officer as may be authorized by him], in such form and in such manner and such fee; and also for such period but not less than three years, as prescribed. (3) The licensee of such warehouse/silos/ cold storage or other such structure or place, may collect user charge on notified agricultural produce transacted at the declared market sub-yard under sub-section (1), at the rate ad valorem not exceeding the rate as notified by the Government: Provided that no user charge shall be collected from agriculturist seller. (4) A declared market sub-yard licensee shall contribute, such user charge, to the separate Fund maintained by the Marketing Board at the rate in percentage at par with 24[Revolving Marketing Development Fund]. The fund will be utilized for the purposes and as specified in sub-section (5) of section 5C of this Act.