Director of Agricultural Marketing power to direct the making or amendment of bye-laws

Below is the text of Section 150 of the Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966:

150. Director of Agricultural Marketing power to direct the making or amendment of bye-laws.—(1) If it appears to the Director of Agricultural Marketing that it is necessary or desirable in the interests of a market committee to make any bye-laws or to amend any bye-laws, he may, by order, direct the market committee to make such bye-laws or to amend the bye-laws within such time as he may specify in such order.

1. (2) If the market committee fails to make or amend any bye-laws within the time specified in the order under sub-section (1), the Director of Agricultural Marketing may, after giving the market committee an opportunity of being heard, make or amend the bye-laws and pass such incidental, consequential and supplementary provisions as may be necessary to give effect to such bye-laws or amendment.
2. (3) The bye-laws so made or amended shall have the same force and effect as if they had been made or amended by the market committee under section 148.