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(1)The State Government may either generally or specially for any market area or market areas make rules for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, such rules may provide for or regulate - (a) 1 [the criteria for classification of market areas ;] (aa) the election and nomination of members of the market committee, the manner of election, the preparation and revision of lists of voters from time to time, the qualifications and disqualification of voters and candidates and the payment of all expenditure in connection with or incidental to such election; (b) the powers to be exercised and duties to be performed by the market committee and by its Chairman and Vice-Chairman; (c) the election of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the market committee and his term of office; (d) the filling of casual vacancies in the office of Chairman, Vice-Chairman or member of the market committee; (e) 2 the management of the market and the manner of collection of market fees by the market committees in the market area; (f) the issue of Licenced to traders, brokers, weighmen, measurers, surveyors, warehousemen and other persons operating in the 3 [market area] the form in which and the condition subject to which such Licence shall be issued or renewed and the fee to be charged therefore; (g) the trade allowance which may be paid or received by any person in any transaction in the agricultural produce in a market area; (h) the prohibition of brokers from Acting in any transaction on behalf of both the buyer and seller of agricultural produce or as a buyer or seller; (i) the provision of accommodation, for storing ant agricultural produce brought into the market; (j) 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; (k) the form in which the account of the market committee shall be kept, the audit and publication of such accounts and the charges, if an, to be make for such audit; (l) the preparation and submission for sanction of the annual budget and the reports and returns to be furnished by a market committee; (m) the investment and disposal of the surplus funds of a market committee; (n) the regulation of advances, if any, given to agriculturists by brokers or traders; (o) the prevention of adulteration of the agricultural produce; (p) the grading and standardisation of the agricultural produce; (q) the keeping of list of prices of agricultural produce in respect of which market is established; (r) the manner in which auction of agricultural produce shall be conducted and bids made and accepted in any market; (s) the recovery and disposal of [market fees or other fees] leviable by or under the Act; (sa) 4 [infrastructure for consumer-farmer market, manner of sale in consumer farmer market, quantity of a commodity that may be purchased at a time in the consumer-farmer market, rate of market service charge chargeable in the consumer-farmer market; (sb) manner and form in which application for licence for establishment of private sub-market yard and consumer farmer market may be made, licence fees for establishment of private sub-market and terms and conditions for such licence; (sc) manner in which the market committee shall regulate the market of agricultural produce; (sd)the manner in which the officers and servants shall be employed by market committees; (se) manner in which scales, weights, and measures in use market area, and the books of accounts and other documents maintained by the traders, brokers, weighmen, measurers, surveyors, ware housemen and other persons operating in the market area may be inspected and verified by the market committee; (sf) form in which agreement shall be executed by the person who buys agricultural produce in the market area; (sg) manner in which contract farming buyer shall be registered with the market committee, form of contract farming agreement and particulars and terms and conditions to be contained in such form and the manner in which market fee shall be payable by the contract farming buyer.] (t) Any matter which, by any provision of this Act, may be or is required to be prescribed or for which by such provision rules may be or are required to be made; (u) Generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act. (3) Any rule made under this Act may provide that any contravention thereof or of any of the conditions of any Licence issued or renewed there under shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees. (4) The power to make rules conferred by this section in subject to the condition of rule being made after previous publication. 5 [Provided that any rules may be made without previous publication, if the State Government considers that it should be brought into force at once.] (5) All rules finally made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after they are so made, before the house of the State legislature, while it is in session, for a period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions and is before the expiry of session in which they are so laid or of the session immediately following, the house of the State legislature makes any modification in any of such rules or resolves that any such rule should not be made, such rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done there under.