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The Assam Agricultural Produce Market Act, 1972
The Assam Agricultural Produce Market Act, 1972
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Constitution of State Agricultural Marketing Board.
Section 33A. Power and Functions of the Board.
Section 3A3B. Assam State Agricultural Marketing Board Fund.
Section 3B3C. Payments incurred by the Board.
Section 3C3D. Contribution towards the Board.
Section 3D3E. Utilisation of Marketing Board Fund.
Section 3E3F. Audit of Accounts of the Board.
Section 3F3G. Delegation of Power.
Section 3G3H. Powers and Functions of the Chairman.
Section 3H3I. Functions and powers of the Chief Executive Officer.
Section 3I4. Notification of intention of exercising control over purchase and sale of agricultural produce in specified area.
Section 45. Declaration of market area.
Section 56. Declaration of market yards.
Section 67. Establishment of Market Committee.
Section 78. Constitution of Market Committee.
Section 89. Period of office of Market Committee.
Section 910. Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Market Committee.
Section 1011. Removal of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.
Section 1112. Calling of meetings and quorum.
Section 1213. Incorporation of Market Committee.
Section 1314. Functions of the Market Committee.
Section 1415. Power of the Market Committee.
Section 1516. Duties of the Market Committee.
Section 1617. Appointment of Sub-Committee and Joint Committee.
Section 1718. Appointment of Secretary.
Section 1819. Appointment and salaries of staff market of Committee.
Section 1920. Execution of contracts.
Section 2021. Power to levy cess.
Section 2121A. Prevention or aviation of cess.
Section 21A22. Certain differences regarding construction of rules, etc., about weight and measures to be decided by marked committee.
Section 2223. Market Committee Fund.
Section 2323A. Audit of Accounts of the Market Committee.
Section 23A24. Pool of officers.
Section 2425. Purpose for which Market Committee Fund shall be expended.
Section 2526. Misapplication of fund.
Section 2627. Power to borrow.
Section 2728. Acquisition of land for the purpose of this Act.
Section 2829. No trade allowance permissible except as prescribed.
Section 2930. Liabilities of members of Market Committee to removal from office.
Section 3031. Members to be held responsible for misapplication of Funds.
Section 3132. Duty to furnish information to Director and other authorised officer.
Section 3233. Power to inspect.
Section 3334. Power of the Director in emergency.
Section 3435. Recovery of loss.
Section 3536. Power to enforce attendance.
Section 3638. Consequence of supersession.
Section 3839. Penalties.
Section 3940. Eviction of encroacher from marked-yard.
Section 4041. Penalty for contravention of Section 29.
Section 2942. Penalty for contravention of provision of Section 32.
Section 3243. Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Member and staff of Market Committees to be public servants.
Section 4344. Bar of suit in absence of notice.
Section 4445. Trial of offences.
Section 4546. Admissibility of copy of entry as evidence.
Section 4647. Recovery of sums due to and from Market Committee.
Section 4748. Power of the State Government to delegate its power.
Section 4849. Power to make rules.
Section 4950. Bye-laws.
Section 5051. Power of the Director to impose bye-laws.
Section 5152. Power of State Government to call for proceedings of Market Committees and to pass orders thereon.
Section 5253. Power of State Government to amend the Schedules.
Section 5354. Savings.
Section 54
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"content": "(i) \"Agricultural produce\" means and includes any produce whether processed or non-processed of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, pisciculture, sericulture and forest as specified in the Schedule;\n(ii) \"Agriculturist\" means a person who ordinarily by himself or who by his tenants or hired labour or otherwise is engaged in the production of agricultural produce but does not include a dealer or broker in agricultural produce although such a dealer or broker may also be engaged in the production or growth of agricultural produce;\n(iii) \"Gaon Panchayat\" means a Panchayat established under the provisions of the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 (Assam Act No. XVIII of 1994);\n(iv) \"Board\" paeans the State Agricultural Marketing Board constituted under Section 3;\n(v) \"Broker\" means an agent, whose ordinary course of business is to negotiate and make contracts for the purchase or sale of agricultural produce on behalf of his principal and who is remunerated by commission; but does not include the servant of such principal whether engaged in negotiating or making such contracts;\n(vi) \"Bye-laws\" means bye-laws made under Section 50;\n(vii) \"Certificate Officer\" means the officer so defined in the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913 (Bengal Act 11 of 1913);\n(viii) \"Commission Agent\" means a person who on behalf of another person and in consideration of commission makes or offers to make purchase or sale of agricultural produce or does or offers to do anything necessary for completing and carrying out such purchase or sale;\n(ix) \"Co-operative Bank\" means the Assam Co-operative Apex Bank Ltd., registered under the Assam Co-operative Societies Registration Act, 1949 (Act 1 of 1950) or any other Co-operative Bank formed for the State of Assam as an Apex Bank and includes a District Central Co-operative Bank;\n(x) \"Co-operative Marketing Society\" means a Co-operative Society registered under the Assam Co-operative Societies Act, 1949 which has as its principal object the promotion of the sale of agricultural produce grown, reared or produced by its members or which is declared as such or equivalent thereto by the State Government;\n(xi) \"Director\" means the Officer appointed by the State Government to discharge all or any of the functions of the Director under this Act;\n(xii) \"District Council\" means a District Council, constituted under paragraph 2 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India;\n[(xiii) \"Gaon Panchayat\" omitted;]\n(xiv) \"Licensee\" means a person or association, firm or company granted a licence under this Act;\n(xv) \"Local authority\" means a Corporation, a Municipal Board or a Town Committee, a Zilla Parishad or a Gaon Panchayat;\n(xvi) \"Market\" means a regulated market established under this Act for the market area and includes a market proper, a principal market-yard and a sub-market-yard or yards, if any;\n(xvii) \"Market area\" means any area declared to be a market area 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market-yard\" and \"sub-market yard\" means an enclosure, building or locality declared to be a principal market yard and sub-market yard respectively in the official Gazette by the State Government;\n(xxvii) \"Progressive producer\" means a producer who in the opinion of the Director of Agriculture, Assam carries on agricultural production on improved method;\n(xxviii) \"Proprietor\" means the owner of a market and includes any person who is in actual charge and/or in direct control of the market whether such person is the owner of the market or is the lessee thereof or is acting on behalf of such owner or lessee;\n(xxix) \"Register\" means the Registrar of the Co-operative Societies Assam;\n(xxx) \"Retail sale\" means a sale of any agricultural produce not exceeding such quantity as may, by by-laws or rules, be fixed in respect of such agricultural produce;\n(xxxi) \"Rules\" means rules made under this Act;\n(xxxii) \"State Government\" means the State Government of Assam;\n(xxxiii) \"Schedule\" means a Schedule to this Act;\n(xxxiv) \"Secretary\" means the Chief Executive of the Market Committee and includes officiating, acting Deputy and Assistant Secretary;-\n(xxxv) \"Surveyor\" means a person whose business is to survey a consignment of agricultural produce for sale in regard to quantity, grade, refraction, adulteration and such other purposes;\n(xxxvi) \"Trade\" means any kind of transaction of sale and purchase or any kind of remuneration of sale and purchase of any agricultural produce;\n(xxxvii) \"Trader\" means a person ordinarily engaged in the business of buying and selling of agricultural produce as principal or a duly authorised agent of one or more principals and includes a person ordinarily engaged in the business of processing of agricultural produce;\n(xxxviii) \"Warehousing Corporation\" means the State Warehousing Corporation established in Assam under Section 18 of the Warehousing Corporation Act, 1972;\n(xxxix) \"Weighman\" means a person 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"content": "(i) payment of administrative expenditure of the Board;\n(ii) payment of travelling and other allowance to the Chairman and Members of the Board;\n(iii) payment of legal expenses incurred by the Board;\n(iv) granting aid to financially weak Market Committees in the form of loan or grant for development purposes;\n(v) training of the officers and staff of the Market Committees and the Board;\n(vi) for any purpose as may be deemed necessary by the Board for carrying out the purposes of this Act;\n(vii) for any purpose as may be directed by the State Government for carrying out the purposes of this Act.",
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"content": "(i) any enclosure, building or locality in any market area to be the principal market-yard and other enclosures, buildings or localities in such market areas to be one more sub-market-yard or yards for the area; and\n(ii) any area including all lands with the buildings and structures thereon within such distance of the principal or sub-market yard or yards, as the case may be, as it thinks fit to be market proper :",
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"content": "(i) seven agriculturists who are voters of Gaon Panchayat to be elected by the members of the Gaon Panchayat in the market area in the manner prescribed :\n(ii) three to be elected by the traders, otherwise than co-operative marketing societies and Gaon Panchayat, holding valid licence under this Act from amongst themselves in the manner prescribed :\n(iii) one to be elected by the members of the Managing Committee or Board of Directors,as the case may be, of the co-operative marketing societies in the market area holding a licence under this Act from amongst themselves in the manner prescribed;\n(iv) one to be nominated by such Co-operative Bank as may be decided upon by the State Government;\n(v) one to be nominated by the State Government;\n(vi) one to be elected by the members of the Municipal Board, Town Committee or Gaon Panchayat within whose jurisdiction the principal market-yard is situated from amongst the members of the Municipal Board. Town Committee or Gaon Panchayat, as the case may be. When the principal market-yard is situated within the jurisdiction of two or more local authorities of the type mentioned above, one member to be elected jointly by the members of the local authorities concerned from amongst themselves in the manner prescribed.\n(vii) one to be nominated by the Warehousing Corporation, if a warehouse has been established by such Corporation within the market area and where no such warehouse has been established, then two persons shall be elected by the Co-operative Marketing Societies under Clause (iii).",
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"number": "9",
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"content": "(a) the Vice-Chairman or in his absence, a member duly elected at the meeting shall preside if the resolution relates to the removal of the Chairman;\n(b) the Chairman or in his absence a member duly elected at the meeting, shall preside if the resolution relates to the removal of the Vice-Chairman;\n(c) a member duly elected at the meeting shall preside if the resolution relates to the simultaneous removal of both the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman.",
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"content": "(a) such meeting it called by the Secretary under the direction of the Chairman or Vice-Chairman, as the case may be, or as may be required on a requisition by the members as prescribed, and\n(b) a quorum is present.\nChapter III\nIncorporation of Market Committee, its Objects, Powers and Duties",
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"content": "(i) to maintain and manage the market-yard and to control, regulate and run the market in the interest of the agriculturists and traders holding licence from the market committee;\n(ii) to regulate and control transactions in the market and to deal with licence holder who defaults to open, close and suspend trade in any notified agricultural produce, to settle disputes, levy and recover market charges, fees on an agricultural produce, licence and other fees, to impose fines and penalties;\n(iii) to act as a mediator, arbitrator or surveyor in all matters of differences, disputes, claims, etc., between licences or between them and agriculturists making use of the market as sellers of agricultural produce;\n(iv) to control and regulate the admission to the market, to determine the conditions for the use of the market and to prosecute and confiscate the goods belonging to persons trading a valid licence;\n(v) to bring, prosecute or defend or aid in bringing, prosecuting or defending any suit, action, proceeding, application or arbitration on behalf of the market committee or otherwise as directed by the State Government;\n(vi) to purchase, hire or acquire any land for construction of any house thereon or other movable or immovable property and other equipment for the purpose of its business, to raise fund from the Government or otherwise with the approval of the Director for the said purpose and to enter into arrangements with the Government, local authority or otherwise and to comply with such arrangements; and\n(vii) to do such other things as may be required for the purpose of achieving the objects and requirements of the Act and the rules and bye-laws framed thereunder.",
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"title": "21. Power to levy cess.",
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"content": "(i) Such produce is taken out or proposed to taken out of the said area; or\n(ii) the agreement of sale or purchase thereof in respect of such produce is entered into in the said area, or\n(iii) in pursuance of sale or purchase or the agreement of sale or purchase such produce is delivered in the said area to the purchaser or to some other person on behalf of the purchaser.",
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"content": "(i) contributing to general revenues of the Board, Mahkuma Parishads, Gaon Panchayats, Town Committees and Municipal Boards as the State Government may direct;\n(ii) payment of interest on the loans that may be raised for the purposes of the market and the provision of sinking fund in respect of such loans;\n(iii) the acquisition of a site or sites for the market;\n(iv) the maintenance and improvement of the market;\n(v) the construction and repair of buildings necessary for the purpose of such market and for the healthy convenience and safety of the persons using it:\n(vi) the provision and maintenance of standard weights and measures;\n(vii) pay, pensions, leave, allowance, gratuities, compensations for injuries resulting from accidents, compassionate allowances and contribution towards leave allowances, pensions or provident fund of the officers and staff employed by it;\n(viii) the expenses of an incidental to elections of the market committee;\n(ix) collection and dissemination of information regarding matters relating to crop statistics and marketing in respect of the agricultural produce notified under Section 5;\n(x) [deleted]\n(xi) propaganda in favour of the agricultural improvement; and\n(xii) other functions under the Act and the Rules.\n(xiii) any matter which the Board may entrust.",
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"number": "29",
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"number": "31",
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"number": "35",
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"content": "37. supersession of Market Committee.",
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"content": "(a) wilfully neglects or refuses to furnish any information, or\n(b) wilfully furnishes false information, he shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to rupees two hundred.",
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"number": "44",
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"content": "(i) the qualifications of voters, the preparation and revision of the lists of voters, the division of market area into constituencies, the election, appointment and nomination of members of the market committee, the manner of holding election, the drawing up of the election programme, the fixing or polling stations and the appointment of Returning, Presiding and Polling Officers, the declaration of the results of election and mattes regarding appeals in respect of disputes in connection with elections;\n(ii) the election of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the market committee;\n(iii) the filling up of casual vacancies in the office of Chairman, Vice-Chairman or member of a market committee :\n(iv) the powers to be exercised and the duties to be performed by a market committee and its Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary;\n(v) the management of the market, minimum and maximum cess which may be levied and collected by the market committee, the method, manner and mode of collection of such cess in respect of agricultural produce regulated under the Act and sold and re- sold in the market area;\n(vi) the issue of licences to traders, persons and firms engaged in processing of agricultural produce, commission agent, brokers, weighmen, measurers, surveyors, warehouseman and the cancellation and suspension of such licence and the category of such other persons operating in a market area as may be determined by the Director and the form in which and the condition subject to which such licences shall be issued, cancelled, or renewed therefor;\n(vii) the method and manner of holding meetings, the procedure to be followed at such meetings and the powers to be exercised at such meetings;\n(viii) the form in which returns shall be submitted by the Board or a market committee to the Director and such other officers as may be authorised by the Director;\n(ix) the persons by whom and the form in which copies of documents, entries in the books of a market committee may be certify and the charges to be levied for the supply of such copies;\n(x) the kind and descriptions of the weights and measures and the weighing and measuring instruments which alone shall be used in the transactions in agricultural produce in market areas;\n(xi) the periodical inspection of all weights and measurers and weighing and measuring instruments in use in market areas;\n(xii) the procedure to be followed in presenting and disposing of an appeal to the State Government or the officer appointed by it in that behalf under sub-section (2) of Section 22;\n(xiii) the manner in which the inquiry and inspection of the Board or a market committee shall be held;\n(xiv) the matters in respect of which the Board or a market committee shall or may make bye-laws and the procedure to be followed in making or abrogating bye-laws and the conditions to be fulfilled prior to making such abrogations and alternations;\n(xv) [deleted]\n(xvi) [deleted]\n(xvii) the trade allowance which may be made or received by any person in any transaction in any agricultural produce in a market area;\n(xviii) the prohibition of brokers for acting in any transaction on behalf of both the buyer and seller of agricultural produce or as a buyer or seller;\n(xix) the provision of accommodation for storing any agricultural produce brought into the market;\n(xx) [deleted]\n(xxi) the form in which the accounts of the Board or a market committee, and the grant or sanction to plans and estimates shall be kept, the audit, inspection and publication of such accounts if any to be made for such audit and the inspection of audit memoranda of the accounts and supply of copies of such memoranda;\n(xxii) the preparation and submission for sanction of the annual budget and the report and returns to be furnished by the Board or a market committee;\n(xxiii) [deleted]\n(xxiv) the regulation of advances, if any, given to agriculturists by brokers, commission agents, or traders;\n(xxv) the prevention of adulteration of agricultural produce;\n(xxvi) the grading and standardisation of agricultural produce;\n(xxxii) the keeping of a list of prices of agricultural produce in respect of which the market is established;\n(xxviii) the manner in which auctions of agricultural produce shall be conducted and bid made and accepted in any market;\n(xxix) the recovery and disposal of cost leviable by or under this Act;\n(xxx) other matters relating to the functioning of the Board or the market committee.",
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"number": "50",
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"number": "51",
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"number": "52",
"title": "52. Power of State Government to call for proceedings of Market Committees and to pass orders thereon.",
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"number": "53",
"title": "53. Power of State Government to amend the Schedules.",
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"number": "54",
"title": "54. Savings.",
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"content": "Schedule\n[ See Section 2 (1) (j)]\nI. Fibres:\n(1) Jute (baled and unbaled)\n(2) Cotton (ginned and unginned).\n(3) Mesta.\n(4) Sunhemp.\nII. Cereals:\n(1) Paddy.\n(2) Rice\n(3) Muri.\n(4) Chira.\n(5) Khali.\n(6) Wheat and wheat products.\n(7) Maize.\n(8) Other millets.\n(9) Paddy husk.\n(10) Rice barn and polished.\n(11) Wheat Bran and polished.\nIII Pulses:\n(1) Matikalai or Matimah.\n(2) Mug.\n(3) Arhar.\n(4) Peas.\n(5) Gram.\n(6) Musur.\nIV. Oil seeds\n(1) Sesamum or till.\n(2) Mustard.\n(3) Linseed.\n(4) Castor Seed.\n(5) Cotton Seed.\n(6) Coconut.\n(7) Tisi.\nV. Narcotics:\n(1) Tobacco\nVI. Fruits:\n(1) Mandarin.\n(2) Lime\n(3) Lemon.\n(4) Mussambi.\n(5) Valencia.\n(6) Grape fruits.\n(7) Other citrus\n(8) Banana.\n(9) Papaya.\n(10) Guava.\n(11) Jack fruits.\n(12) Mango.\n(13) Plum.\n(14) Peaches.\n(15) Pears.\n(16) Apples.\n(17) Pine apples.\n(18) Bel.\n(19) Blackberry.\n(20) Rose apple.\n(21) Sapeta.\n(22) Melons.\n(23) Tamarind.\nVII. Vegetables:\n(1) Potato.\n(2) Sweet potato.\n(3) Onion.\n(4) Tomato.\n(5) Leafy and fresh vegetables.\n(6) Yam.\nVIII. Animal husbandry product:\n(1) Eggs.\n(2) Poultry\n(3) Cattle.\n(4) Sheep.\n(5) Horse.\n(6) Goat.\n(7) Buffaloes.\n(8) Milk.\n(9) Butter and cream.\n(10) Ghee.\n(11) Wood.\n(12) Hide and skin.\nXI. Condiments and spices :\n(1) Turmeric (whole and powdered).\n(2) Ginger.\n(3) Garlic.\n(4) Coriander.\n(5) Chillies (Dry and Green).\n(6) Cardamoms and Black-paper.\n(7) Betel-nuts.\n(8) Betel leaves.\n(9) Cashewnuts.\n(10) Methi.\n(11) Jira.\n(12) Dhania.\nX. All types offish (excluding canned fish).\nXI. Forest products:\n(1) Lac.\n(2) Gum.\n(3) Timber\nXII. Sericultural products:\nCocoons and Yams-\n(1) Eri.\n(2) Muga.\n(3) Pat.",
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"Act Number": "Assam Act No. 23 of 1974",
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"Act Year": "1972",
"Short Title": "The Assam Agricultural Produce Market Act, 1972",
"Type": "STATE",
"Location": "Assam"
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}