Markets, market yards, market sub-yards, sub-markets and sub-market yards.-

1. (1) (a) For every market area,-
   • (i) there shall be a market, and
   • (ii) there may be one or more sub-markets;
   • (b) For every market,-
     • (i) there shall be a market yard, and
     • (ii) there may be one or more market sub-yards;
   • (c) For every sub-market there shall be 1[one or more sub-market yards.] 1[(1A) in any market area, there may be one or more private market yard or farmer - consumer market yard managed by a person who is a private market licencee or farmer - consumer market licencee other than the market committee.]
2. (2) (a) The 1[Director of Agricultural Marketing] shall, as soon as possible after the issue of a notification under section 4, by a notification, declare any specified area in the market area to be a market. He may also by the same notification or by any subsequent notification declare any other specified area 2[including a warehouse] in the market area to be a sub-market.
   • (b) The 1[Director of Agricultural Marketing] shall by a notification under clause (a) also declare a specified place 2[x x x] in the market to be a market yard for the regulated marketing of the notified agricultural produce specified in the notification. He may also by the same notification or by any subsequent notification or notifications declare 3[any other specified place or places] , as the case may be, 2[x x x] , in the market to be a market sub- yard or sub-yards for the regulated marketing of the notified agricultural produce specified in the notification.
   • (c) Where by a notification under clause (a) any specified area is declared to be a sub- market, the 3[Director of Agricultural Marketing] shall by the same notification declare a specified place 1[x x x] in the sub-market to be a sub-market yard for the regulated marketing of the notified agricultural produce specified in the notification: 4[(d) The Director of agricultural marketing may, by notification, declare a place, licenced under section 72C, in the market area to be a private market yard or farmer - consumer market yard as the case may be, as may be specified in the notification, for marketing of notified agricultural produce.] Provided that the limits of the market or the sub-market, as the case may be, shall not include any area beyond the limits of the area of the city, town or village within which the market yard or the sub-market yard, as the case may be, is situated: 2[Provided further that if in respect of any market area, the 1[Director of Agricultural Marketing] is of the opinion that a suitable place for the location of the market yard or sub- market yard cannot be easily secured within the limits of the area of a city, town or village, proposed to be declared as a market or sub-market, he may declare an area including one or more villages, beyond the limits of a city, town or village to be a market or sub-market and declare a place in any such village to be a market yard or sub-market yard for such market or sub-market.] 5[ 6[Provided also that, the Director of Agricultural Marketing may declare a warehouse, silos, cold storage, pack houses, cleaning, grading and packaging unit as sub-market, market sub-yard or sub-market yard as the case may be in such manner as may be prescribed.] ] 7[Provided also that, all processing units licensed by the market committee which is outside the market yards and within the market area, shall be deemed as sub-market, market sub-yard or sub-market yard as the case may be for the purpose of regulation.] 1[(2A) In respect of any market area declared under any of the enactments repealed by sub-section (1) of section 154, the 2[Director of Agricultural Marketing] may, as soon as possible after the commencement of this Act, and subject to the provisos to sub-section (2), declare by notification, any specified area in such market area to be a market, any other specified area in the market area to be a sub-market, a specified place in the market to be a market yard, any other place or places to be market sub-yard or market sub-yards, and a specified place in the sub-market to be a sub-market yard.]
3. (3) Subject to the procedure prescribed in sections 3 and 4 , the 2[Director of Agricultural Marketing] may at any time by a notification 1[alter any market or sub-market or any market yard, market sub-yard or sub-market yard or] exclude any area from any market or sub-market or any place from any market yard, market sub-yard or sub-market yard, or include therein, subject to the 3[provisos] to sub-section (2), an additional area or place, as the case may be, or may direct that the regulated marketing of any notified agricultural produce in any market yard, or market sub-yard, or sub-market yard shall cease or that any notified agricultural produce shall be included in the regulation of marketing in any such yard or sub-yard. 1[Explanation.- In this section, the expression "place" shall include any structure, enclosure, open place, locality or street, whether vested in the market committee of the market area or not.] 1[(4) For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that after the alteration of a market area or of the items of regulated agricultural produce, if any, under section 5, it shall not be necessary for the 2[Director of Agricultural Marketing] to make any declaration under this section unless he is of the opinion that it is necessary to declare any area other than the existing market, sub-market, market yard, market sub-yard, or sub-market yard as market, sub-market, market-yard, market sub- yard or sub-market yard, as the case may be.]

¹ Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f. 17.6.1986

¹ Inserted by Act 23 of 2007 w.e.f. 16.8.2007

¹ Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f. 17.6.1986

² Inserted by Act 05 of 2014 w.e.f. 04.01.2014

¹ Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f. 17.6.1986

² Omitted by Act 19 of 1969 w.e.f. 1.5.1968

³ Substituted by Act 19 of 1969 w.e.f. 1.5.1968

¹ Omitted by Act 19 of 1969 w.e.f. 1.5.1968.

² Inserted by Act 19 of 1969 w.e.f. 1.5.1968.

³ Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f. 17.6.1986.

⁴ Inserted by Act 23 of 2007 w.e.f. 16.8.2007.

⁵ Inserted by Act 05 of 2014 w.e.f. 4.1.2014.

⁶ Substituted by Act 19 of 2025 w.e.f. 25.03.2025

⁷ Inserted by Act 19 of 2025 w.e.f. 25.03.2025

¹ Inserted by Act 19 of 1969 w.e.f. 1.5.1968

² Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f. 17.6.1986

¹ Inserted by Act 19 of 1969 w.e.f. 1.5.1968

² Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f. 17.6.1986

³ Substituted by Act 19 of 1969 w.e.f. 1.5.1968

¹ Inserted by Act 4 of 1982 w.e.f. 1.5.1968

² Substituted by Act 35 of 1986 w.e.f. 17.6.1986