Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(I) The Government may, after previous publication, power to make rules in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :- (i) the qualifications of the voters, the preparation and the revision of the list of voters, the division of market area in its constituencies, the election, appointment and nomination of members of the Market Committee, the manner of holding election, the drawing up of the election, programme, the fixing of polling stations and the appointment of returning, presiding and polling officers, the declaration of the results of election and matters regarding appeal in respect of disputed cases in connection with elections : (ii) the election of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Market Committee : (iii) the filling up of casual vacancies in the once of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman or member of a Market Committee. (iv) the powers to be exercised and duties to be performed by a Market Committee and its Chairman, Vice-Chairman and its Secretary; (v} the management of the market,minimum and maximum cess or fees which may be levied and collected by the Market Committee,the method, manner and mode of collection of such cess or fees in respect of agricultural produce regulated under the Act and sold in the market area; (vi} the issue of licences to the traders lessons and firms, engaged in processing of the agricultural produce, commission agent,brokers, weighmen, measures, surveyors warehousemen and the cancellation and suspends of such licence and category of such other persons operating in a market area as maybe determined by the Director and the form in which and the conditions subject to which such licenses shall be issued, cancelled and renewed therefore : (vii} the method and manner of holding meetings, the procedure to be followed at such meetings, and the powers to be exercised such meetings; (viii} the form in which returns shall be submitted by a Market Committee to the Director and such other officers as may be authorised by the Director; (ix} the persons by whom in which copies of documents, entries in the books of a Market Committee may be cer:tified and the charges to be levied for the supply of such copies; (x} the kind and the descriptions of the weights and measures and the weighing and the measuring instruments which alone shall be used in the transactions in agricultural produce in a market area : (xi) the periodical inspection of all weight and measures and weighing and measuring instrument in use in market areas : (xii} the procedure to be followed in presenting and disposing of an appeal to the Government or the officer appointed by it in that behalf; (xiii} the manner in which the inquiry and inspection of a Market Committee shall beheld; (xiv} the matters in respect of which a Market Committee shall or may make byelaws and the procedure to be followed in making or abrogating bye-laws and the conditions to be fulfilled prior to making of such abrogation and alterations; (xv} the declaration of market proper and market yards; (xvi} the service rules, recruitment rules,provident fund rules, pension rules and such other rules as may be required for the employment of the staff; (xvii} the trade allowance which may be made or received by any person in any transaction in any agricultural produce in a market area: (xviii) the prohibition of brokers for acting in any transactions on behalf of both the buyer and the seller, of agricultural produce or as a buyer or seller; (xix) the provision of accommodation for storing any agricultural produce brought into the market; (xx) the preparation of plans and estimates for works proposed to be constructed partly or wholly at the expense of the Market Committee and the grant of sanction to such plans and estimates; (xxi) the form in which the accounts of a Market Committee and the grant and the sanction to plans and estimates shall be kept,the audit, inspection and publication of such accounts, if any, to be made for such audit and the inspection of audit, memoranda of accounts and supply of copies of such memoranda ; (xxii) the preparation and the submission for sanction of the annual budget and the report and the returns to be furnished by a Market Committee; (xxiii) the investment and the disposal of surplus fund of a Market Committee: (xxiv) the regulations of advances, if any,given to agriculturists by brokers. Commission agent, or traders; (xxv) the prevention of adulteration of agricultural produce : (xxvi) the grading and standardisation of agricultural produce; (xxvii) the keeping of a list of prices of agricultural produce in respect of which the market is established ; (xxviii) the manner in which auctions of agricultural produce shall be conducted and bids made and accepted in any market : (xxix) the recovery and disposal of cost leviable by or under this Act (xxx) write off losses etc; (xxxi) any other matter which rs required to be or may be prescribed.