Bare ActsThe Meghalaya State Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 (Act No. 9 of 2020)

Section 12

Declaring warehouse/silos/cold storage or other such structure or place as market sub‐yard.

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(1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the State Government may, by notification declare warehouse, silos, cold storage or other such structure or place with infrastructure and facilities as prescribed, to function as market sub yard. Explanation: the expression place under this subsection shall include any structure, enclosure, open space, locality, street including pack house, cleaning grading and processing unit etc. (2) The owner of such warehouse, cold Storage, or other such structure or place, as the case may be, desirous of declaration of such place as market sub yard under subsection (1), shall apply to the Director or an Officer authorized by him, in such form and in such manner and such fee; and also for such period but not less than three years, as may be prescribed. (3) The licensee of such ware house, silos, cold storage or other such structure or place, may collect user charge on notified agricultural produce transacted at the declared market subyard under Section 12, at the rate ad valorem not exceeding the rate as notified by the Director or Board: Provided that no user charge shall be collected from agriculturistseller. (4) A declared market subyard licensee shall contribute, of such user charge collection, to the separate Revolving Marketing Development Fund maintained by the Director at the rate in percentage at par with Market Committee. The Fund will be utilized for the purposes and in the manner mutatis mutandis to Section 10 (5) of this Act.

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