Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— fi • • De rations. (7) "agricultural produce" means any produce of agri- culture, horticulture, pisciculture, forestry or animal husbandry or any other produce declared by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to be agricultural produce for the purposes of this Act, and includes any such produce which has been wholly or Partly processed ; 2 The West Bengal Markets Regulation Act, 1970. [West Ben. Ac t (Section 2.) (2) "broker" means an agent whose ordinary course of business is to negotiate and make contracts on. payment of commission for the purchase or sale of agricultural produce on behalf of his principal, but does not include a servant of such Principal engaged in negotiating or making such contracts ; (3) "Calcutta" has the same meaning as in the Calcutta West Ben. Aet Municipal Act, 1951 ; MILE of 1951.. (4) "commission agent" means a person who buys and sells agricultural produce for any person, keeps it in his custody and controls it during the process of its sale or purchase, and collects pay- ment theref or from the buyer and pays it to the seller, and receives by way of remuneration a commission or percentage upon the amount involved in each transaction ; (5) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture, West Bengal, and includes the Additional Director of Agriculture (Marketing), West Bengal ; -(6) "District Magistrate" means the Chief Officer charged with the executive administration of a district in criminal matters by whatever designa- tion called, and includes an Additional District Magistrate ; (7) "Inspecting Officer" means an Inspecting Officer appointed under section 23; (8) "licensing authority'' means the authority referred to in section 3 for issuing a licence under that section ; (9) "market" means any place at which people ordi- narily assemble, either daily or on fixed days for the purchase or sale of agricultm al produce, irrespective of whether any other commodity is purchased or sold in such place or not, and in- cludes any place at which any fair or mela is held for more than three consecutive days : Provided that the State Government may, if it so thinks fif in the public interest, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any such place not to be a market and thereupon such place shall not be deemed to be a market for the Purposes of this Act ; (10) "market committee" means a market committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 9 and includes a special market committee constituted under the proviso to that sub-section; n. Ac se of is on le of dipal acts; utta West Ben. Act. 1 XXX_Ill , of 1951., A an eeps the Pay" the or a aunt West Aet xTri tf 1958. est of er of a na- riot er red that rai- for is fin- is the be be hie The West Bengal Markets Regulation Act, 1970. 3 1111 of 1970.1 (Section 3.) (11) "measurer" means a person whose business, is to measure a consignment of agricultural Produce for sale; (12) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules under this Act ; • (13) "proprietor", in relation to a market, includes the lessee thereof ; (14) "rent", in relation to a market, means anything lawfully payable in cash or in kind to the pro- prietor of the inarket for the use or occupation of any land, with or without any structure there- on, in the, market ; (15) "standard weight" and "standard measure" have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the West Bengal Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958; (16) "Sub-divisional Magistrate" means any Magistrate in charge of a sub-division of a district and in- cludes an Additional Sub-divisional Magistrate; (17) "trade allowance" means anything realised in cash or in kind by the purchaser from the seller in any transaction relating to agricultural produce either by deduction from the price agreed upon or otherwise ; Explanation:—In this clause "purchaser" includes a commission agent; (18) "warehouseman" means a person whose business is to store agricultural produce in any building, structure or enclosure on behalf of persons depositing such produce; and (19) "weighman" means a person who, in the ordinary course of business, is engaged in the weighing of agricultural produce in connection with a tran- saction of sale or purchase thereof. 3, After six months from the commencement of this Li cence for pro- Act in any area— prietora of. (a) no person shall establish a new market in such area, markets. and (b) no proprietor of an existing marl:et in such area shall continue to. run such market, except under and in accordance with the terms and con- ditions of a licence issued to him in this behalf by such authority, in such form and subject to such terms and con- ditions as may be prescribed : ee of tad Provided that— (i) the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the said period of six 4 4 The West Bengal Markets Regulation Act, 1970. [West Ben. Act (Sections 4-7,) months to such extent as may be specified in the notification in respect of any area or any class of market; (ii) it shall not be necessary f or any local authority or market committee to take out any licence under this section in respect of any market of which such local authority or market committee is the proprietor.