The Puducherry Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1973
The Puducherry Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1973
This law establishes a regulated framework for buying, selling, processing, and storing agricultural produce across the Union Territory of Puducherry. It applies to agricultural producers, commercial traders, buyers, market intermediaries, and local market committees. By establishing dedicated market areas and corporate market committees, the legislation mandates licensing for commercial trading, enforces standardized weights and measures, prohibits unauthorized trade deductions, and levies market fees to fund agricultural infrastructure. Exempting direct sales by producers and domestic purchases, the law ensures fair trading practices, transparent price discovery, proper market administration, and better economic protections and marketing facilities for local farmers.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Declaration of notified area.
- 4. Establishment of market committee.
- 5. Establishment of markets.
- 6. Trading in Agricultural produce in notified area.
- 7. Agricultural produce to be sold in the market only.
- 8. Incorporation of market committee.
- 9. Constitution of market committee by election.
- 10. Project Agricultural Officer to be ex-officio member.
- 11. Term of office of member, etc.
- 12. Special provision where there is delay in the re-constitution of new market committee.
- 13. Sub-committee, Special Committee and delegation of powers.
- 14. Meetings.
- 15. Appointment and salaries of officers and servants of market committee.
- 16. Supersession of market committee.
- 17. Execution of contracts.
- 18. Levy of market fee by market committee.
- 19. Levy of subscriptions for market reports, etc.
- 20. Market Committee Fund.
- 21. Purposes for which the Fund may be expended.
- 22. No trade allowance permissible except as prescribed by rules or bye-laws.
- 23. Power to borrow.
- 24. Power to write off irrecoverable fee, market fee, etc.
- 25. Recovery of sums due to Government from market committee.
- 26. Liability of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and members for loss, waste or misapplication of property.
- 27. Penalties.
- 28. Trial of offences.
- 29. Liability of accused to pay fee, market fee or other amount.
- 30. Composition of offences.
- 31. Power of Magistrate to recover summarily fee, market fee or other amount.
- 32. Power of Director to decide certain questions.
- 33. Power of Government to call for records and pass orders.
- 34. Registration of document executed on behalf of a market committee.
- 35. Saving.
- 36. Act to over ride other laws.
- 37. Exemption.
- 38. Power to remove difficulties.
- 39. Power to make rules.
- 40. Power to make bye-laws.
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