Declaration of market area

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare the area so notified or any portion thereof to be a market area for the purposes of this Act in respect of all or any of the agricultural produce specified in the Schedule. (2) After the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) or at such date as may be specified therein, no person, local or other authority shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, set up, establish or continue or allow to be set up, establish or continue or use any place in the market area for the purpose, sale or storage of any agricultural produce so notified, except in accordance with the provisions of this Act or of the rules or bye laws made thereunder. (3) Nothing in sub-section (2) shall apply to the purchase, sale or storage of such agricultural produce if the producer of such produce is himself its seller and the purchaser is a person who purchases such produce for his own consumption, or if such agricultural produce is sold by retail sale to a person who purchases such produce for his own consumption. (4) The State Government may at any time, by notification in the Official Gazette, exclude from the market area any area or any agricultural produce specified for that market area.