section 71
Suspension or Cancellation of unified single trading licence granted under Section 70
The Meghalaya State Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation) (Amendment) Act, 2022General2022140 sections12 chapters
Chapter VII REGULATION OF TRADING
Statutory text
- (1) The Director or the Officer authorized by him may, after such inquiry as he deems fit to make and after giving, in the prescribed manner, the licensee a reasonable opportunity of being heard, suspend or cancel a licence issued under Section 70 on any of the following grounds:
- (a) that, the licence has been obtained through willful misrepresentation or fraud;
- (b) that, the licensee himself or in collusion with other licensees commits any act or abstains from carrying on his normal business in the market with intention to willfully obstruct, suspend or stop the marketing of notified agricultural produce has been obstructed, suspended or stopped;
- (c) that, the licensee is found to have contravened any of the provisions of this Act or the Rules or Bye-laws;
- (d) that, the licensee has been convicted of an offence punishable under this Act or Rules or regulations;
- (e) that, the licensee has become insolvent; or
- (f) that, the licensee incurs any disqualification on grounds prescribed.
- (2) Having been licence suspended or cancelled under this section, the holder of such licence shall forth with produce the same in the office of the Director or the Officer authorized for being endorsed in the prescribed manner and shall not been titled to any claim on account of such suspension or cancellation any compensation or refund of the whole or any part of the licence fee or any of the other money.
- (3) In case of contravention of any of the provisions of this Act, Rules, Bye-laws or instructions or orders, the Director, Managing Director or Market Committee shall, after giving an opportunity to be heard, blacklist such licensee for trading purpose only within their respective jurisdiction, when a contravention has occurred, for a certain period or forever based on the gravity of breach or violation of provisions of this Act, Rules, Bye-laws or instructions or orders. Explanation: The expression ‘blacklisting’ for a certain period to be deemed to be suspended for such a period in the jurisdiction as under sub-section (3), while ‘forever’ deemed to have been cancelled in the jurisdiction as under sub-section (3).
- (4) The Director, Managing Director or Market Committee of the respective jurisdiction, where in the contravention occurs, may simultaneously submit a proposal detailing the type and nature of contravention with evidence, to the concerned licence issuing State Authority for taking further appropriate action against the contravenor.
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