State Act

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

60C. Grant/Renewal of licence to establish electronic trading platform.— (1) Any person desirous of establishing an e-trading platform under sub-section (1) of section 60B shall apply to the 65[State Marketing Officer or such officer as may be authorized by him] in such form and in such manner along with such fee, security/bank guarantee and by fulfilling such conditions, as prescribed. (2) The application received for grant or renewal of licence may be rejected for reasons to be recorded in writing by the 66[State Marketing Officer or such officer as may be authorized by him]: Provided that the provision contained in the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 5 shall maintain mutatis mutandis apply for deciding the application received under this section. (3) The e-trading platform managed and operated by a person or Government or its agencies, as the case may be, shall provide all infrastructures and services connected to e- trading, as prescribed. (4) The licensee or its management committee, may collect user charge on sale transactions of notified agricultural produce including livestock on the e-trading platform: Provided that no user charge shall be collected from agriculturist-seller: Provided further that Government in public interest may from time to time, by notification, put ceiling on the rate of collection of user charge. 67[(5) the e-trading platform licencee shall contribute such user charge collection to the Revolving Marketing Development Fund at the rate specified in sub-section (2) of section 34. Such fund shall be utilized for the purposes specified in sub-section (5) of section 5D of this Act.]