Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Government may, by notification, make either generally or specially for any notified area or areas, rules for carrying out all or any of the provisions of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for or regulate – (i) the issue by a market committee of licences to brokers, weighmen, measures and surveyors, the form in which and the conditions subject to which, such licences shall be issued or renewed, and the fees to be charged therefor; (ii) the provision of accommodation for storing any notified agricultural produce brought into the market; (iii) the kind and description of the scales, weights and measures, which alone may be used in transactions in the notified agricultural produce concerned in a notified area: (iv) the periodical inspection, verification and correction of all scales, weights and measures in use in a notified area and the seizure of scales, weights and measures found to be false; (v) the annual fees that may be levied by the market committee in respect of licences granted under section 6 and the recovery of such fees; (vi) the election, appointment, co-option and removal of members of a market committee, the preparation and revision of lists of electors; and the payment of all expenditure in connection with or incidental to elections; (vii) the election of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of a market committee and their terms of office; (viii) the filling of casual vacancies in the office of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman or member of a market committee; (ix) the provision of facilities for the settlement of any dispute between a buyer and seller of the notified agricultural produce or their agents including disputes regarding the quality or weight of the article, the allowances for wrappings, dirt or impurities or deductions from any cause; (x) the prohibition of brokers from acting in any transaction on behalf of both the buyer and seller of any notified agricultural produce; (xi) the manner of collection of market fee; (xii) the maximum rates of subscriptions which may be levied by the market committee under section 19 and the recovery of such subscriptions; 20 (xiii) 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; (xiv) the procedure to be followed by a market committee in respect of financial matters generally, including the manner in which, and the restrictions and conditions subject to which, expenditure may be incurred by it; (xv) the form in which the accounts of a market committee shall be kept, the audit and publication of such accounts, and the charges, if any, to be made for such audit; (xvi) the powers of auditors and the Director to disallow and surcharge items and the recovery of sums so disallowed and surcharged; (xvii) the institution of provident funds; (xviii) the preparation and submission for sanction of an annual budget and the reports and returns to be furnished by a market committee; (xix) the investment and disposal of the surplus funds of a market committee; (xx) the trade allowance which may be made or received by any person in any transaction in the notified agricultural produce in a notified area; (xxi) the prevention of adulteration of notified agricultural produce; (xxii) the maintenance of standards of notified agricultural produce; (xxiii) the provision for affording facilities for settlement of debts charged on notified agricultural produce; (xxiv) any other matter which has to be or may be prescribed. (3) Any rule made under this section may provide that any contravention thereof or of any of the conditions of any licence issued or renewed thereunder shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. (4) Every rule made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before the Legislative Assembly, Puducherry, while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid, or the session immediately following, the Legislative Assembly, makes any modification in the rule or decides that the rule should not be made or issued, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be: Provided that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity or anything previously done under that rule. Power to make bye-laws.