Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Duties and power of Committee (1) It shall be the duty of a Committee- (a) to enforce the provisions of this act and the rules and the bye-laws made there under in the notified market area and, when so required by the 2[***] Board, to establish a market therein providing such facilities for persons visiting it in connection with the purchase, sale, storage, weighment and processing of agricultural produce concerned as the 3[***] Board may from time to time direct; (b) to control and regulate the admission to the market, to determine the conditions for the use of the market and to prosecute or confiscate the agricultural produce belonging to person trading without a valid licence; (c) to bring, prosecute or defend or aid in bringing, prosecuting or defending any suit, action, proceeding, application or arbitration, on behalf of the committee or otherwise when directed by Board 4[***]. (2) Every person licensed under section 10 or section 13 and every person exempted under section 6 from taking out license, shall on demand by the committee or any person authorized by it in this behalf furnish such information and returns, as may be necessary for proper enforcement of Act or the rules and bye-laws made there under. (3) Subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this behalf, it shall be the duty of a committee to issue licences to brokers, weigh men, measurer, surveyors, godown 1 section 12-A and 12-B substituted in section 12-A,vide notification no.22-Leg./2017 dated 18-8-2017(Punjab Act No. 18 of 2017 ) 2 Omitted vide Punjab Act No.4 of 1993. Now the Powers of the Board have been delegated vide Memo No.18(50) M-I- 87/1048 dated 8-12- 1987 to Secretary Board, full powers, Enforcement Chief for seasonal arrangements and arrangements regarding Apni Mandis subjects to control of Secretary and District Mandi Officer for seasonal arrangements subjects to control of Secretary Board and Enforcement Chief 3 ibid. 4 Omitted vide Punjab Act. No. 40 of 1963. *12-C & 12-D omitted vide notification No.-1 leg-96 dated 3-1-1996(Punjab Act No. 5 of 1996) 19 keepers and other functionaries for carrying on their occupation in the notified market area in respect of agricultural produce and to renew, suspend or cancel such licences. (4) No broker, weigh men, measurer, surveyor, godown-keeper or other functionary shall, unless duly authorized by licence, carry on his occupation in a notified market area in respect of agricultural produce: Provided that nothing in sub-section (3) and (4) shall apply to a person carrying on the business of warehouseman who is licensed under the Punjab Warehouses Act, 1957 (Punjab Act No. 2 of 1958).