Notification of intention of declaring a market area and recommendation of local authority to Government to declare market area

(1) Whenever local authority of any local area, for the purpose of decongesting any part of the local area, considers necessary to shift the commercial activities in respect of any specified commodity to places outside such part, such local authority may, by notification, specify its intention to recommend and to call upon the Government to declare any other area in such local area to be a market area in respect of such specified commodity as specified in such notification. (2) (a) The notification shall state that any objection or suggestion which may be received by the local authority, within such period as may be specified in the notification, will be considered by it. (b) A copy of the notification shall also be published in such other manner as may be prescribed. (3) After the expiry of the period specified in the notification under sub-section (1), and after considering the objections and suggestions as may be received before such period, and after considering the interest of the wholesale traders carrying on business in such specified commodity and such other factors, if any, the local authority shall recommend to the Government to declare such area to be a market area in such local area in respect of such specified commodity as specified in the notification under sub-section (1): Provided that the local authority may make recommendation in respect of more than one specified commodity to be shifted to the same area to be a market area under this section.