Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Declaration of market area :– (1) After expiry of the period, specified in the notification issued under Section 3 and after considering such objections and suggestions as may be received before such expiry and after holding such inquiry as may be necessary, the State Government may, by ratification declare the area specified in the notification under Section 3 or any portion thereof to be a market area for the purpose of this Act in respect of all or any of the kinds of agricultural produce specified in the said notification. A notification under this section may also be published in the regional language of the area in a newspaper circulated in the said area or may be published in such other manner as the State Government may deem fit. (2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that a notification published in the Gazette under Section 3 or under Sub-section (1) shall have full force and effect notwithstanding any omission to further publish the same in any other manner, or irregularity or defect in such further publication in pursuance of Section 3 or Sub- section (1), as the case may be. 1[(3) On and from the date of notification issued under Sub-section, (1) or such later date as may be specified therein, no local authority or person shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, set up, establish or continue or allow to be set up, established or continued any place for the purpose of sale and purchase of any agricultural produce within the market area or within a distance thereof to be notified in the Gazette in this behalf in each case by the State Government : Provided that the State Government may, subject to such terms and conditions as they may impose, permit the continuation of any place in the market area for the marketing of any agricultural produce as aforesaid for such period not being later than the date of declaration of market yard within the market area as they may specify. (4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law for the time being in force, the market committee may, after a notification issued under Sub-section (1), by requisition, require any Municipality or Grama Panchayat to transfer to it any land or building in possession of such Municipality or Grama Panchayat wholly of partly situated within the concerned in market area which immediately before the