Chapter II Establishment of Markets

(1) Upon a representation made by any person or local authority or by the growers of any agricultural produce within the area for which a market is proposed to be established or otherwise, the Government or the person appointed by the Government as the State Marketing Officer, may, by notification in the Official Gazette and in such other manner as may be prescribed, declare its or his intention of developing and regulating the marketing of such agricultural produce in such area as may be specified in the notification.

1. (2) A notification under sub-section (1) shall state that any objection or suggestion which may be received by the Government or the State Marketing Officer within a period which shall be not less than thirty days from the date of publication of such notification in the Official Gazette, shall be considered by the Government or the State Marketing Officer.

After expiry of the period specified in the notification issued under section 3 and after considering such objections and suggestions as may be received before the expiry of such period and after making such inquiry as may be necessary, the Government or the State Marketing Officer may, by notification, declare the area specified in the notification issued under section 3 or any portion thereof to be a market area for the purposes of this Act and that marketing of all or any kind of agricultural produce specified in the notification issued under section 3 shall be developed and regulated under this Act in such market area.

Private Market.— (1) In every market area, there may be:—

1. (i) market yard managed by the Marketing Board;
2. (ii) one or more than one sub-market yards managed by the Marketing Board;
3. (iii) one or more than one private market yards/private markets managed by a person other than the Marketing Board;
4. (iv) one or more than one farmer's/consumer's markets managed by a person other than the Marketing Board.

1. (2) The Government shall, as soon as may be, after the issue of notification under section 4, by notification, declare any specified place including any structure, enclosure, open place, or locality in the market area to be a market yard or sub-market yard, as the case may be.

1. (1) The Government may, by notification, declare it's intention,—
   • (i) to alter the limits of a market area by including within it any other area in the vicinity thereof or by excluding therefrom any area comprised therein; or
   • (ii) to amalgamate two or more market areas and constitute one market area thereof.
2. (2) Every notification issued under sub-section (1) of this section shall define the limits of the area which is intended to be included in or excluded from a market area, or of the market areas intended to be amalgamated into one market area, or of the area of each of the markets intended to be constituted after splitting up an existing market area, as the case may be, and shall also specify the period which shall not be less than six weeks within which objections, if any, shall be received by the Government.

1. (1) Any inhabitant of the market area or of the areas covered by the notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 6 may, if he objects to anything contained therein, submit his objections in writing to the Government within the period specified for this purpose in the said notification.
2. (2) When the period specified in the notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 6 has expired and the Government has considered and passed orders on such objections as may have been submitted to it within such period, the Government may, by notification, include the area or any part thereof in the market area or exclude it therefrom or amalgamate market areas thereof.

Where a notification under section 7 has been issued, the Government shall, after consulting the Marketing Board, frame a scheme to determine what portion of the assets and other properties vested in one market shall vest in the other market and in what manner the liabilities of the market shall be apportioned between the two markets and such scheme shall come into force on the date of it's publication in the Official Gazette.

1. (a) Where a notification is issued under sub-section (1) of section 6 excluding area from any market area and such excluded area is not declared to be a separate market area; or
2. (b) Where a notification is issued under sub-section (1) of section 6 including any area within a market area, the Government may pass such consequential orders as it may deem fit in respect thereof and the sub-committee constituted for such market area before the date of such exclusion or inclusion, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, continue to be sub-committee for the said excluded or included area until the declaration of such areas as market area under this Act.