Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
[7. 1 (1) As soon as may be after the publication of the notification under section 6 the State Government may by notification in the Gazette, declare such portion of the market area as may be specified as the principal market yard and such other portions as may be specified as sub-market yard :] 2 [Provided that the whole of the Principal Market Yard shall be located within the limits of one district only.] 3 [(2) The State Government, where it considers necessary or expedient in the public interest so to do, may, by notification — (a) include any area in or exclude any area from the area of a principal market yard or sub-market yard or abolish the existing principal market yard or sub-market yards and declare a new principal market yard or sub-market yards ; 4 [ (b) declare that the whole-sale transactions of all or any of the specified agricultural produce in respect of a market area shall be carried on only at a specified place or places within its principal market yard or sub-market yards.] 5 Provided that the proviso of this clause shall have no effect on the following – 1. Market sub yard; 2. Direct Marketing; 3. Private Mandi Yard; 4. Trade through Unified License; 5. Purchase Centres under minimum support price scheme; 6. Trade through digital platform approved by Director, Mandi Parishad; Provided that the licenses issued by Mandi Samiti or Director, Agriculture Marketing shall not be within the specified distance from the declared and constructed principal market yard/sub-market yard, determined by Director, Mandi Parishad.]]