State Act

The Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961

6. (1) After the expiry the period specified in the notification under section 5 and after considering such objections and suggestions as may be received before the expiry of such period, the State Government may, by notification and in any other manner that may be prescribed, declare the area notified under section 5 or any portion thereof to be a notified market area for the purposes of this Act in respect of the agricultural produce notified under section 5 or any part thereof. (2) The State Government if satisfied that in any notified market area, a Committee is not functioning 1[or two such areas or parts thereof are to be amalgamated or a part of any such area is to be amalgamated with another such area or is to be constituted into a separate notified market area,] may by notification denotify any market area notified under sub-section (1) or any part thereof and, when the whole of such area is denotified, cancel a Committee and transfer all the assets of that Committee which remain after satisfaction of all its liabilities to the Board. Such assets shall be utilised by the Board for such objects in the area as it may consider to be for the benefit of the producers of that area. (3) After the date of issue of such notification or from such later date as may be specified therein, no person, unless exempted by rules made under this Act, shall, either for himself or on behalf of another person, or of the State Government within the notified market area, set up, establish or continue or allow to be continued any place for the purchase, sale, storage and processing of the agricultural produce so notified, or purchase, sell, store or process such agricultural produce except under a licence granted in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the rules and by-laws made thereunder and the conditions specified in the licence: Provided that a licence shall not be required by a producer who sells himself or through a bonafide agent, not being a commission agent, his own agricultural produce or the agricultural produce of his tenants on their behalf or by a person who purchases any agricultural produce for his private use. (4) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that a notification published in the official gazette under this section or section 5 shall have full force and effect notwithstanding any omission to publish, or any irregularity or defect in the publication of a notification under this section or under section 5 as the case may be.