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section 4

Constitution of a market committee and declaration of notified market area

The Andhra Pradesh (Agricultural Produce and Livestock) Markets Act, 1966
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  1. (1) The Government shall constitute, by notification, a market committee for every notified area from such date as may be specified in the notification and the market committee so constituted shall be a body corporate by such name as the Government may specify in the said notification, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and may, by its corporate name, sue and be sued: Provided that any market committee functioning immediately before such constitution in respect of a notified area abolished under the proviso to clause(c) of sub-section
  2. (4) of section 3 shall stand abolished. (1-A) Any notification made under sub-section
  3. (1) for the constitution of a new market committee in respect of any new notified are declared under clause
    • (c) of sub-section
  4. (4) of section 3, may contain such supplemental, incidental and consequential provisions, including provisions as to the composition of the new market committee or new and existing market committees and the apportionment of the assets and liabilities between the market committees affected thereby.
  5. (2) It shall be the duty of the market committee to enforce the provisions of this Act and rules and bye-laws made thereunder in the notified area. (3)
    • (a) Every market committee shall establish in the notified are such number of markets as the Government may, from time to time, direct for the purchase and sale of any notified agricultural produce, livestock or products of livestock and shall provide such facilities in the market as may be specified by the Government, from time to time, by a general or special order.
    • (b) Every market committee shall also establish in the notified area such number of markets as the Government may, from time to time, direct for the purchase and sale, solely of vegetables or fruits and shall provide such facilities in the market as may be specified by the Government, from time to time, by a general or special order.
    • (c) The market committee shall declare, by the notification, the limits of every market established by it under clauses
    • (a) and
    • (b) ( hereinafter referred to as the market area).
  6. (4) As soon as may be after the establishment of a market under sub-section(3), the Government shall declare by the notification the market area such other area adjoining thereto as may be specified in the notification, to be notified market area for the purpose of this Act in respect of any notified agricultural produce, livestock or products of livestock.
  7. (5) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections(1),(2),(3) and (4), the Government may, by notification –
    • (a) exclude from a notified market area, any area comprised therein; or
    • (b) include in any notified market area, any area specified in such notification.

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