Bare ActsThe PUDUCHERRY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKETS ACT, 1973

Section 20

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(1) All moneys received by a market committee shall be paid into a fund called the "Market Committee Fund" (hereinafter referred to as the Fund) and all expenditure incurred by the market committee under or for the purposes of this Act shall be defrayed out of the said Fund; and any surplus remaining after such expenditure has been met, shall be invested in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) (a) Every market committee shall, out of its Fund, pay to the Government the cost of any special or additional staff, employed by the Government in consultation with the market committee for giving effect to the provisions of this Act in the notified area to which the market committee was established. (b) The Government shall determine the cost of such special or additional staff and shall, where the staff is employed for the purposes of more than one market committee, apportion such cost among the market committees concerned in such manner as it thinks fit. * Now, Sections 457, 458 and 459 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974). 14 (3) The decision of the Government determining the amount payable by any market committee shall be final. Purposes for which the Fund may be expended.

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