Power to make Rules

(1) The State Government may by notification make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the forgoing power, such rules may provide for- (i) appointment or nomination of members of the Board and Committees and their removal; (ii) the powers to be exercised and the duties to be performed by the Board or Committees and their officers and servants; (iii) the elections of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Committees, their powers and term of office; (iv) the filling of casual vacancies in the office of member or in the office of the Chairman or Vice -Chairman Of Committees; (v) the time, place and manner in which a contract between buyer and seller is to be entered into, continued and carried out and the money is to be paid to the seller ; (vi) generally for the guidance of the Board or the Committee; (vii) management of the market, maximum fees which may be levied by a Committee in respect of the agricultural produce brought or sold by licencees in the notified market area, and the manner and the basis thereof, and the recovery and disposal of such fees ; (viii) the issue by a Committee of licences to brokers, weighmen, measurers, surveyors, godown-keepers or other functionaries, the form in which, and the conditions under which, such licences shall be issued or renewed and the fees, if any to be charged there for; (ix) the issue of licences to dealers, the form in which, and the conditions under which, such licences shall be issued or renewed and the fees, if any, to be charged there for: (x) the place or places at which agricultural produce shall be weighed, the kind and description of bardana to be used and the quantity of the produce to be filled and of the scales, not being handscales (Takri), weights and measures which alone may be used in transactions in agricultural produce in a notified market area ; (xi) the inspection, verification, regulation, correction and confiscation of scales, weights and measures in use in a notified market area; (xii) the trade allowance which may be made or received by any person in any transaction in an agricultural produce in a notified market area; (xiii) the provision of facilities for the settlement by arbitration or otherwise of any dispute between a buyer and a seller of agricultural produce or their agents, including disputes regarding the quality or weight of the article, the price or rate to be paid, allowances for wrappings, dirt or impurities or deductions for any cause; (xiv) the prohibition of brokers from acting in the same transaction on behalf of both the buyer and the seller of agricultural produce ; (xv) the provision of accommodation for storing any agricultural produce brought into the market; (xvi) the preparation of plans and estimates for work proposed to be constructed partly or wholly at the expense of the Board or a Committee and the grant of sanction to such plans and estimates; (xvii) the form in which the accounts of a Committee shall be kept the audit and publication of such accounts, the charges, if any, to be made for such audit; (xviii) the management and regulation of provident funds which may be established for the benefit of the employees of the Board or Committees; (xix) the preparation and submission for sanction of an annual budget and the reports and returns to be furnished by the Board or Committees’ (xx) the investment and disposal of the surplus funds of the Board or Committees; (xxi) the manner in which auctions of agricultural produce shall be conducted and bids made and accepted in any market; (xxii) any matter in respect of which fees shall be payable under this Act, and fixing the amount of such fees and the mode of payment and recovery thereof; (xxiii) exemption of classes of persons from the obligation of obtaining licences under section 6; (xxiv) the authority to which applications for obtaining licences shall be made; (xxv) the realisation or disposal of fees recoverable thereunder or under any rules or bye-laws made under this act;