The person or persons so appointed shall cease to manage the affairs of the market committee on such constitution or reconstitution.

Trading etc., in notified agricultural produce, livestock and products of livestock I the notified area

1. (1) No person shall, within a notified area, set up, establish or use, or continue are allow to be continued, any place for the purchase, sale, storage, weighment, curing, pressing or processing of any notified agricultural produce or products of livestock or for the purchase or sale of livestock except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted to him by the market committee: Provided that the market committee may exempt form the provisions of this sub-section any person who carries on the business of purchasing or selling any notified agricultural produce, livestock or products of livestock not exceeding such value as may be prescribed: Provided further that a person selling notified agricultural produce, livestock or products of livestock grown, reared or produced by him, shall be exempt from the provisions of this sub-section, but the Government may, for special reasons to be recorded in writing, withdraw such exemption in respect of any such person. Provided also that the market committee shall not renew the licence granted under this section, unless the license pays all the arrears of amount due to it under provisions of this Act. Explanation: Nothing in the second proviso to this sub-section shall be construed as exempting a co-operative marketing society registered or deemed to be registered under the Andhra Pradesh Co-operative Societies Act, 1964, selling notified agricultural produce, livestock or products of livestock or products of livestock for his own domestic consumption.
2. (2) Nothing in sub-section
3. (1) shall apply to a person purchasing notified agricultural produce, livestock or products of livestock for his own domestic consumption.
4. (3) A licence granted under sub-section
5. (1) shall be in such form and subject to the payment of such fees, as may be prescribed: Provided that no fees shall be charged for the grant of a licence –
   • (i) to the Khadi and Village Industries Commission;
   • (ii) to as co-operative marketing society referred to in the explanation to sub-section(1);
   • (iii) to a person merely for curing , pressing or processing any notified agricultural produce or products of livestock.
6. (4) ( a) A licence under sub-section
7. (1) may be refused to a person –
   • (i) whose licence was cancelled and one year has not elapsed since the date of the cancellation;
   • (ii) who has been Convicted of an offence or been guilty of misconduct which, in the opinion of the market committee affects the said person’s integrity as man of business;
   • (iii) in regard to who the market committee is satisfied after such inquiry as it considers adequate, that he is a benamidar for, or a partner with, any other person to whom a licence may be refused under sub-clause
   • (I) or sub-clause (ii):
   • (iv) if, in the opinion of the market committee, the grant of a licence is likely to affect the transaction of purchase or sale in the market or the levy of market fees therefore.
   • (b) The market committee may, in accordance with such rules as maybe made by the Government and after such inquiry as it deems fit, cancel or suspend any licence granted under sub-section(1). Provided that in the case of refusal to grant a licence or of suspension or cancellation of a licence, the applicant or the licencee, as the case may be, shall be entitled to appeal to such officer and in such manner as may be prescribed.
8. (5) A person to whom a licence is granted under sub-section
9. (1) shall comply with provisions of this Act, the rules and the bye-laws made thereunder and the conditions specified in the licence.
10. (6) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1), on person shall purchase or sell any notified agricultural produce, livestock and products of livestock in a notified market area, outside the market in that area.