The Mizoram State Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development & Regulation) (Amendment) Act, 2010

(1) This Act may be called the Mizoram State Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development & Regulation) (Amendment) Act, 2010. (2) It shall have the like extent as the Principal Act. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.

In Section 2 of the Principal Act, after sub-section 32, a new sub-section 32-A shall be inserted, namely :- “32-A “Meat” will all grammatical variations and cognate provisions means and includes meat generally eaten in Mizoram, viz pork, mutton, beef, chicken, fish”.

In section 85 of the Principal Act after clause (XV) of sub-section (2), a new clause XVI shall be added, as follows :- “XVI to fix selling rates of meat which are sold by weighment as may be required from time to time by a notification in the Gazette”.

AN ACT to amend the Mizoram State Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development & Regulation) Act, 2008, (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), does not specifically cover the matter relating to selling of meat by weighment in the market; And whereas there is extraordinary increase in selling rates of different kinds of meat in the markets and it is felt that in the public interest it is urgently necessary to control the selling rates by weighment in the markets; It is enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Mizoram in the sixty first year of the Republic of India as follows namely :-