Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) After the expiry of the period specified in the notification issued under section 10 and after considering such objections and suggestions as may be received the State Government may, by notification, declare the area so notified or any portion thereof to be a market area for the purpose of this Act in respect of all or any of the agricultural produce specified in the said notification. The notification shall be published in the manner prescribed. (2) After the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) or at such later date as may be specified therein, no person, local or other authority notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force , shall , within the market area or within a distance thereof to be notified in the official Gazette in this behalf, set up, established or continued, any place for the purchase, sale or storage of any agricultural produce so notified, except in accordance with the provisions of this Act, rules or bye-laws framed 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 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 for his own consumption. (4) The State Government may, at an time by notification in the official Gazette, exclude from the market area any area or any agricultural produce specified for the market area.