Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) After six months from the declaration of any area as a market area, no person shall, within the market proper, carry on business or act as a trader, commission agent, broker, weighman, measurer, warehouseman or surveyor, or sell or purchase agricultural produce, or engage in processing and preservation of agricultural produce, or setup, establish or continue a stall, shed or other structure for storage, sale or purchase of any agricultural produce, except, under and in accoordance with the prescribed terms, and conditions of a licence issued in this behalf by the market committee. (2) Any person desiring to obtain a licence under sub-section (1) may make an application to the market committee in such form and on payment of such fee not exceeding rupees two hundred, as may be prescribed. (3) On receipt of an application under sub-section (2), the market committee may issue the licence in such form, subject to such terms and conditions and for such period as may be prescribed. (4) Any licence issued under sub-section (3) may be renewed for such period as may be prescribed, by the market committee from time to time on application made in this behalf by licensee and on payment of a fee equal to the fee payable for the issue of the licence in the first instance. (5) The market committee may refuse to issue or renew any licence under this section in favour of any person if it is satisfied that such person has previously been convicted by a court of law for an offence punishable under this Act. (6) The market committee may, after giving the holder of a licence under this section an opportunity of showing cause in such manner as may be prescribed, cancel his licence or suspend it for such period as it thinks fit for any breach of the terms and conditions of the licence or for any contravention of the provisions of this Act. (7) Where a licence is cancelled or suspended under sub-section (6), the licensee shall not be entitled to any compensation therefor, nor shall he be entitled to the refund of any fee paid by him for the licence. 200 The West Bengal Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1972. XXXV of 1972.1 prescribed: , Provided that the State Government may appoint any officer of the Directorate of Agriculture as Secretary of the market committee. (2) The State Government may appoint engineering andother technical personnel for the efficient working of the market committee. (3) The market committee may employ such other officers and employees as the State Government may sanction. (4) The salaries and allowances of the officers and employees of the market committee shall be paid from the market committee fund and the market committee shall also provide for the payment of leave allowance, pension, gratuity and provident fund to all its officers and employees in accordance with such rules relating to the terms and conditions of service of such officers and employees as may be made by the State Government.