State Act

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

81. Power to make rules.— (1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette and after previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters:— (i) Other manner of publication of. Notification as provided in sub-section (1) of section 3; (ii) the manner of election of female agriculturists as members on the Marketing Board, as provided in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 12; (iii). the manner of election of members as provided in sub-section (1) of section 13; (iv) the period during which a Chairman or a Vice-Chairman shall hold office as provided in section 21; (v) the limit of the total amount of honorarium to be paid to the Chairman and the Vice- Chairman of the Marketing Board as provided in section 23; (vi) the manner of periodical inspection of all weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments in use in a market area, as provided in section 32 (2) (u) and (vii) the matters subject to which the powers conferred on the Secretary of the Marketing Board under section 42 shall be exercised as provided in sub-section (3) of section 42; (viii) form of budget of the Marketing Board and the date for submitting the same to the State Marketing Officer as provided in sub-section (1) of section 43; (ix) the manner in which the amount to the credit of the Marketing Board Fund shall be invested as provided in sub-section (1) of section 44 and the manner in which the money received by the Marketing Board as stated in sub-section (2) of section 44 shall be kept as provided in that sub-section; (x) the use of the Marketing Board Fund for making contribution to the National Council of State Agricultural Marketing Board, as provided in item (xi) of sub-section (1) of section 45; (xi) the manner of settling price of notified agricultural produce in the private yard, as provided in sub-section (3) of section 48; (xii) all matters as stated in sections 51, 53 and 54; (xiii) the manner of filing appeal as provided in section 56; (xiv) the manner of resolving dispute as provided in section 57; 74[(xv) procedure for grant/renewal and suspension/cancellation of unified single trading licence; (xvi) procedure for allowing unified single trading licence for inter-state trade and its blacklisting; (xvii) procedure for grant/renewal of licences to set up private market yard, farmer- consumer market yard, market sub-yard, electronic trading platform and for direct marketing and suspension/cancellation thereof; (xviii) procedure and condition for registration of wholesale ad hoc buyers; (xix) procedure and terms and conditions for declaring warehouse/silos/cold storage or other such structure or space as market sub-yard; (xx) manner of dispute settlement between/among the licensees and between/among the licensees and Marketing Board, etc; (xxi) procedure for setting up of assaying labs including in private sector and promotion of quality certification system. Constitution of committee with technical members of linked and line department of Government and Government of India to promote quality certification system; (xxii) provide necessary infrastructure and logistic support for e-trading platform; (xxiii) the manner in which auctions of agricultural produce including e-auction shall be conducted and bids made and accepted; (xxiv) annual tonnage or such annual values and procedure for issuing licence for market yard of National Importance; (xxv) conditions and fees for establishment of private market yard; (xxvi) infrastructure to be built up/developed at a place and the manner for establishing farmers-consumer market yard (direct sale of Agricultural Produce by farmers to consumer in retail); (xxvii) period, fees, place, manner, infrastructure and forms under which the notification for declaring warehouse/silos/cold storage or other structure or place to be declared as market sub-yard; (xxviii) norms and procedure for infrastructure for backward and forward linkage to retail, processing and export chain, place of direct marketing and the manner in which the records are to be maintained in respect of direct marketing; (xxix) manner and procedure for establishing E-Trading platform for trading notified agricultural produce and livestock and infrastructure, conditions, fees, securities and forms required for issuing licence to e-trading platform. (xxx) linking market sub-yard and private market yard to e-platform of Government of India; (xxxi) specification for procedure and condition of payment in relation to the transactions undertaken on e-trading platform; (xxxii) agreement listing out the terms and conditions of buying and selling of notified agricultural produce and livestock between two or more traders in the principal market, sub-market yard and market sub yard; (xxxiii) any other matter which has to be, or may be prescribed.] (3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly of Goa.