section 11
Duties and powers of Committees
The Himachal Pradesh Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1969General196945 sections
Statutory text
- (1) It shall be the duty of the market committee and Secretary, market committee,—
- (a) to enforce the provisions of this Act and the rules and bye-laws made thereunder in the notified market area and, when so required by the Board, to establish a market therein providing such facilities for persons visiting it in connection with the purchase, sale, storage, weighment and processsing of agricultural produce concerned as the Board or Chairman of the Board may, from time to time, direct;
- (b) to control and regulate the admission to the market, to determine the conditions for the use of the market and to prosecute or confiscate the agricultural produce belonging to person trading without a valid licence;
- (c) to bring, prosecute or defend or aid in bringing, prosecuting or defending any suit, action, proceeding, application or arbitration, on behalf of the committee or otherwise when directed by the Board or the Chairman of the Board; and
- (d) to grade and standardise specified agricultural produce.
- (2) Subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this behalf, it shall be the duty of the Secretary, market committee, to issue licences to brokers, weighmen, measurers, surveyors, godown-keepers and other functionaries for carrying on their occupation in that notified market area in respect of agricultural produce and to renew, suspend or cancel such licences.
- (3) No broker, weighman, measurer, surveyor, godown-keeper or other functionary shall, unless duly authorised by a licence, carry on his occupation in a notified market area in respect of the agricultural produce.
- (4) Every person licensed under sections 8 and 11 and every person exempted under section 4 from taking out licence, shall on demand by the committee or its Secretary or any person authorised by it in this behalf, furnish such records, information and returns, as may be necessary for the proper enforcement of the Act or the rules and bye-laws made thereunder.
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