Amendment of Section 56

"56. Amendment of Section 56." In the Principal Act, for sub-section (3),

1. (4) and (5), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
2. (3) When a Market Committee has been superseded, the Director may by an order-
   • (a) appoint a person to be called the officer-in-charge, or
   • (b) appoint a committee consisting not more than seven persons to be called the in-charge committee, To carry out the functions and exercise the power of the Market Committee and transfer to such officer-in-charge or in-charge committee the assets and liabilities of the superseded Market Committee as on the date of such transfer: Provided that the Director may at any time appoint an officer-in-charge in place of in-charge committee and in-charge committee in place of the officer-in-charge: Provided further that in the event of death, resignation, leave or suspension of the officer-in-charge, a casual vacancy shall be deemed to have occurred in such office and such vacancy shall be filled, as soon as possible by appointment of a person thereto, by the Director and until such appointment is made a person nominated by the Collector shall act as an officer-in-charge.
3. (4) Any officer-in-charge or any person or all person appointed to in-charge committee under clause
   • (b) of sub-section
4. (3) may at any time be removed by the Director, who shall have power to appoint another person or another persons in his place, as the case may be.
5. (5) Any person appointed as officer-in-charge under sub-section
6. (3) shall receive from the Market Committee Fund for his services such Honorarium as may be fixed by the Government, and each member of the in-charge committee shall be entitled to receive allowances from the market committee fund at such rate as the allowances payable to the members of the Mandi Committee."