Amendment of Section 57

"57. Amendment of Section 57." In the Principal Act, for Section 57, the following shall be substituted, namely:-

"57. Consequences of dissolution under Section 13.

1. (1) Where a Market committee stands dissolved under sub-section
2. (2) of Section 13, the following consequences shall ensue namely:-
   • (a) all the members as well as the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Market Committee shall, as from the date of dissolution of such Market Committee under the said sub-section, be deemed to have vacated their offices;
   • (b) all powers and duties of the Market Committee under this Act, shall be exercised and performed subject to the control of the Director,-
     • (i) by a person to be called the officer-in-charge as the Director may, by order appoint in that behalf,
     • (ii) by a committee consisting of not more than seven persons to be called the in-charge committee as the Director may, by order appoint in that behalf: 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;
   • (c) all property vested in the Market Committee shall vest in the officer-in-charge or the in-charge Committee in trust for the purposes of this Act.
3. (2) Any officer-in-charge or any person or all persons appointed to in-charge committee under sub-clause
   • (ii) of clause
   • (b) of sub-section
4. (1) may at any time be removed by the Director who shall have power to appoint another person or another persons as the case may be.
5. (3) Any person appointed as officer-in-charge under sub-section
6. (1) 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.
7. (4) The officer-in-charge or the in-charge committee shall cease to hold office on the date appointed for the first general meeting of the Market Committee as reconstituted."