Administrator to exercise powers and perform duties of market committees

not validly constituted or in the working of which a deadlock is created.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, or the rules, if at any time it shall appear to the State Government, that on account of a decision or order of a competent court, a market committee has not been validly constituted under this Act or that it is disabled from functioning or that the number of seats required to be filled by election under sub-section (2) of section 39 is not filled,

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the Government may by notification, cause all or any powers and duties of the market committee and its Chairman to be exercised and performed by such officer in such manner

1[for a period not exceeding one year] and subject to such conditions as it may, by notification, direct.

1. (2) All the powers and the duties of the market committee exercised and performed bona fide till the date of the notification referred to in sub-section (1), by the persons who constituted such market committee shall be deemed to have been validly exercised and performed by the said persons; and no acts done by the said persons shall be deemed to be invalid or called in question on the ground merely that they were not members of a validly constituted market committee.

¹ Substituted by Act 16 of 1991 w.e.f. 1.8.1991.

2. Omittted by Act 16 of 1991 w.e.f. 1.8.1991.