The Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets (Second Amendment) Act, 2020

1. (1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets (Second Amendment) Act, 2020.
2. (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on and from 1stMay, 2020.

In section 17 of the Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (Act No. 38 of 1961), hereinafter in this Act referred to as the principal Act,-

1. (i) after the existing expression "agricultural produce" and before the existing expression "bought or", the expression "brought or" shall be inserted; and
2. (ii) for the existing expression "market area", the expression "physical boundaries of principal market yards, sub-market yards and market sub-yards managed and run by the market committees formed and, private market yards, private market sub-yards, direct marketing collection centres, and private farmer-consumer market yards managed by persons holding licences or, any warehouses, silos, cold storages or other structures notified as markets or deemed markets, under this Act," shall be substituted.

1. (1) The Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 (Ordinance No. 2 of 2020) is hereby repealed.
2. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, all things done, actions taken or orders made under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done, taken or made under this Act.

1. (1) The market committee shall collect Krishak Kalyan fee from the licensees in the prescribed manner, on agricultural produce brought or bought or sold by them in the physical boundaries of principal market yards, sub-market yards and market sub-yards managed and run by the market committees formed and, private market yards, private market sub-yards, direct marketing collection centres, and private farmer-consumer market yards managed by persons holding licences or, any warehouses, silos, cold storages or other structures notified as markets or deemed markets, under this Act, at such rate as may be specified by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette.
2. (2) The fee collected shall be deposited in Krishak Kalyan Kosh constituted under section 19-A.