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8* +#&.(0A&%(0%$&%() 2&#() 28* ! &(&(&( "-)7) )4*33) 23*')9+*0%B %)2)+3 2,@ " : Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a)to (l).....................
(m) "Prescribed" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act;
:
From the date of issue of notification under Section 6 or from such later date as may be specified therein, no person, unless exempted by rules made under this Act, shall, either for himself or on behalf of another person or the State Government, within the notified market area set up, establish or continue or allow to be continued any place for the purchase, sale, storage and processing of the agricultural produce or purchase, sell, store or process such agricultural produce except under a licence granted in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the rules and bye laws made thereunder and the conditions specified in the licence.
[Provided that a licensee may apply for licence to be operative in one or more Market Committee or for the
entire State, on payment of such fee, as may be prescribed;
Provided further that the licensee shall have to comply with the provisions of other Central and State Acts and obtain permission or licence etc. from the competent authority for carrying out national or international trade by way of import or export of any agricultural or horticultural produce or product.] ..................
Any person may apply to authority specified in Section 9 for a licence which may be granted for such period, in such form, on such conditions and on payment of such fees (not exceeding five hundred rupees) and such security not exceeding five hundred rupees, as may be prescribed:
Provided that if any person carrying on any business of the nature specified in sub section (1) of Section 8 in a notified market area on the date of issue of notification under sub section(1) of Section 6 fails to apply for a licence on or before the date specified therein for obtaining licence, the proper authority may, before a licence is issued, impose on him such penalty not exceeding one hundred rupees as may be prescribed.]
(2) [The Chief Administrator or any other officer, authorized by him in writing in this behalf] may, on being satisfied that [the licence has been obtained through willful misrepresentation or fraud or] there has been a breach of any of the conditions specified in a licence, by an order in writing, cancel or suspend such licence and may also direct that such licence shall not be renewed for such period not exceeding five months for the first breach and not exceeding nine months for the second breach and not exceeding one year for ever subsequent breach, as may be specified in that order:
Provided that the Chairman of a Committee of the area concerned may under intimation to the [The Chief Administrator or any other officer, authorized by him in writing in this behalf] suspend a licence for a period not exceeding fifteen days;
Provided further that no such order shall be made without giving the licensee an opportunity to show cause why such an order should not be made."
xx xx xx xx !" #$ (1) The State Government may by notification make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In Particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for
xx xx xx xx (viii) the issue by a Committee of licences of brokers, weighmen, measures, surveyors, godown keepers or other functionaries, the form in which, and the conditions under which, such licences shall be issued or renewed and the fees, if any, to be charged therefor;............"
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23*')9+& )( 3+0%B #)2)+3 2,@ %& ' Licence to dealers. ( ) (ix) A person desirous of obtaining a licence under section of the Act shall apply in Form 'A'
in duplicate to the [Chief Administrator of the Board or any other person authorised by him, in writing, in this behalf] through the Secretary of the Committee in whose jurisdiction he wishes to carry on his business and shall also deposit with the committee, the requisite licence fee in cash and the security in the form of post office saving bank account duly pledged in favour of the Chief Administrator of the Board or any other person authorised by him, in writing, in his behalf (2) The licence fee and the security for licences issued under this rule shall be as under:
Category of licences Licence per annum Fee per quarter of the year or part thereof.
Security i) Factory including ginning factory sheller, huller, flour mill, oil expeller, Dal Mill or cold storage for sale, purchase, storage or processing of agricultural produce.
Rs. 100.00 Rs. 25.00 Rs.500.00 ii) Commission agent, Kacha Arhtiya or other wholesale dealer for sale, Rs.60.00 Rs. 15.00 Rs.300.00
purchase or storage of agricultural produce iii) [other dealers whose annual turn over of agricultural produce exceeds rupees **[sixty thousand] but does not exceeds rupees one lakh] Rs.20.00 Rs. 5.00 Rs.100.00 *Substituted for the word "Retailer" by Haryana Notification dated 26.3.1982.
** Substituted by Haryana Notification dated 13.8.1987. #Word "huller" deleted by Haryana Notification dated 26.03.1982. Provided that in case of licences issued, before coming into force of the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets (General) Haryana Second Amendment Rules, 1975, the above rates of licence fee and security shall be applicable with effect from the 1st April, 1976.
(3) Unless otherwise provided in the licence, each licence issued under the Act and these rules shall expire on the 31st day of March following the date of issue.
(4) A separate licence shall be required by a person for setting up, establishing or continuing or allowing to be continued more than one place for the purchase, sale, storage and processing of agricultural produce in the same notified market area.
(5) The Secretary of the Committee, or such other official as may be authorised by him to receive such application, shall on receipt of the application and the pass book in respect of security, ensure that the necessary licence fee and security have been deposited and shall, after verifying the correctness of the acts stated therein, forward the same to the [Chief Aministrator of the Board or any other person authorised by him, in writing, in this behalf] under registered post with acknowledgement due within three days of their receipt in the office of the Committee.
(6) On receipt of the application, the [Chief Administrator of the Board or any other person authorised by him, in writing, in this behalf] may grant a licence to the applicant in form B. The licence shall be subject to the conditions mentioned therein.
(7) A record of the licences issued under this rule shall be maintained by the Board as well as by the Committee in form C.
(8) The security will be released three months after the date of the closure of the business, on production of the clearance certificate issued by the Secretary of the concerned committee.
(9) A licensee may apply for the change of the category of the licence at any time by paying the respective licence fee and security for the licence of the changed category." xx xx xx xx & 24(1) to (9) xx xx xx xx 24(10) A person engaged by a producer to sell agricultural produce on his behalf shall not act as a buyer either for himself or on behalf of another person in respect of such produce without the prior consent of the producer:
[Provided that this sub rule shall not apply to a Co operative Society];
(11) xx xx xx xx (12) Every Kachcha Arhitya shall, on delivery of agricultural produce to a buyer, execute a Memorandum in Form 1, and deliver the same to the buyer on the same day or the following day, mentioning sale proceeds plus market charges admissible under rules and bye laws. The counterfoil shall be retained by the Kachcha Arhitya; Provided that nothing in this sub rule shall apply where agricultural produce, being vegetable or fruit, not exceeding one quintal in weight is delivered. (13) xx xx xx xx (14) Delivery of agricultural produce after sale, shall not be made or taken unless and until the Katcha Arhitya or, if the seller does not employ a Kachcha Arhitya, the buyer has given to the seller a sale voucher in Form J the counterfoil whereof shall be retained by the Kachcha Arhitya or the buyer, as the case may be."
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