(i) After the expiry of the period specified in the notification under section 5 and after considering such objections and suggestions as may be received before the expiry of such period, the State Government may, by notification and in any other manner that may be prescribed, declare the area notified under section 5 or any portion thereof to be a notified market area for the purposes of this Act in respect of the agricultural produce notified under section 5 of any part thereof.
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(4) for the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that a notification published in the Official Gazettee under this section or section 5 shall have full force and effect notwithstanding any omission to publish, or any irregularity or defect in the publication of, a notification under this section or under section 5 as the case may be.
1[ 6A. (1) The State Government may, by notification, declare its intention-
(i) to alter the limits of a market area by including therein any other area in the vicinity thereof or by excluding therefrom any area comprised therein :
or
(ii) to amalgamate two or more market areas and constitute one Committee thereof ; or
(iii) to split up a market area and to constitute two or more Committees therefor.
(2) Every Notification issued under sub-section (1) shall define the limits of the area which is intended to be included in or excluded from a market area, or of the market area intended to be amalgamated into one, or of the area of each of the market intended to be constituted after spliting up an existing market area, as the case may be, and shall also specify the period which shall not be less than thirty days within which objections, if any, shall be received by the State government.
6.B (1) Any inhabitant of the market area or of the area affected by the notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 6A may, if he objects to anything contained therein, submit his objections in writing to the State Government within the period specified for this purpose in the said notification
(2) When the period specified in the said notification has expired and the State government has considered and passed orders on such objections as may have been submitted to it within the said period, the State Government may, by notification.-
(a) include the area or any part thereof in the market area or exclude it therefrom ; or ] Declaration of notified market area.
Notifiction of intention to alter limits of or to amalgamate or to split up markets areas.
Procedure subsequent to notification under section
6A.
1. Omitted by Haryana Act 21 of 1973.
2. Inserted by Haryana Act 21 1973.
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of Committee on alteration of limits, amalgamation or spliting up.
(b) constitute a new Committee for the market area amalgamated :
or
(c) split up an existing market area and constitute two or more Committees for such areas, as the case may be.
6C. Where a notification under section 6B has been issued the State Government may make such consequential orders as it may deem fit in respect of -
(a) the constitution of the Committee for the altered area where an area has been included in or excluded from market area ;
(b) dissolution of the existing Committee which have been amalgamated and the constitution of the new committee there for ;
(c) the dissolution of the Committee split up and the constitution of the Committees established in its place thereafter and matters ancillary thereto.
6(D) Where a notification under section 6B has been issued excluding any area from the market area and including any such area in any other market area the State Government shall after consulting the Committee frame a scheme to determine what portion of the assets and other properties vested in one Committee shall vest in the other Committee and in what manner the liabilities of the Committees shall be apportioned between the two Committees and such scheme shall come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette.
6E. On the issue of a notification under section 6B constituting a new Committee for the market areas amalgamated the following consequences shall ensue, namely-
(a) all the property under the control of a Committee immediately before the date of amalgamation including funds shall be the property and fund of the new Committee ;
(b) the staff of the Committees of the amalgamated market areas shall, until otherwise ordered by the Act, be continued and deemed to be the staff appointed by the new Committee ;
(c) all rules, bye-laws, orders and notifications in force in the area of the Committees amalgamated immediately before the date of amalgamation shall, except the rules, bye-laws, orders and notifications in respect of such matters, as may be specified by the State Government by notification issued in that behalf, stand repealed and the rules, bye-laws, order, and notifications in respect of matters specified therein shall operate, throughout the area of new Committee until altered, amended or cancelled in accordance with the provisions of this Act ;
Effect of alteration of limits.
Effect of amalgamation.
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(d) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred by the Committees amalgamated shall be deemed to be the right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred by the new committee.
6F On the issue of notification under section 6B splitting up a market area into two or more market areas the following consequences shall ensue, namely -
(a) All rules, by-laws and orders, in force in the area of the original Committee immediately before the market area of such Committee is split up, shall continue to be inforce in the areas comprised in the new Committees until altered, amended or cancelled in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(b) All property vested in the original Committee shall subject to any orders of the State Government be held and expended by the Board for the purposes of the areas of the newly constituted Committees.