(1) There shall be appointed by the State Government one or more fair officers for the purpose of holding, controlling, managing and regulating cattle fairs in a district:
7 Inserted by Haryana Act 36 of 1971.
8 Clause (cc) added by ibid.
9 Omitted by Haryana Act 25 of 2013.
Bar of holding, etc., of cattle fairs except by or under authority of State Government.
Fair officers and their duties, etc.
Provided that a fair officer may be appointed for more than one district.
(2) Subject to the direction and control of the Deputy Commissioner concerned the fair officer shall be responsible for making arrangement in respect of all matters connected with the holding of a cattle fair and its proper control, management and regulating and shall have the following powers, namely:—
(i) defining the fair area;
(ii) reservation of sites or places for latrines, urinals, baths, shops, exhibitions, shows, demonstrations, foot-baths for animals, water supply for drinking purposes, shelters, green and dry fodder, entertainments and similar other purpose necessary in connection with the cattle fair;
(iii)allotment of sites temporarily for commercial or other purposes in connection with the cattle fair, authorization of raising of structures thereon and fixation of rents for such sites in the prescribed manner;
(iv) construction of temporary officers for the purpose of collecting taxes and fees imposed and levied in connection with cattle fair; and
(v) arrangements for watch and ward, lighting, medical first-aid, veterinary aid, sanitation, tentage and such other matters as may be necessary in connection with the cattle fair.
10[4A. The State Government shall frame a scheme for organizing and managing the cattle fair through an agency on such terms and conditions, as may be prescribed. The scheme shall specify the process for collection of fee and the manner in which the money realized shall be credited to the Cattle Fair Fund.]
5. For the purpose of advising a fair officer in respect of all matters pertaining to the management and control of a cattle fair, the State Government shall, in the prescribed manner, constitute for each cattle fair a Committee consisting of not more than eleven persons, including the 10 Inserted vide Haryana Act 9 of 2017.
Constitution of committee.
Chairman, from amongst the members of Parliament, State legislature and local authorities, including Panchayats, in the district in which the cattle fair is held.
6. The State Government may, in such manner and at such rates as may be prescribed, impose in a fair area during the continuance of a cattle fair—
(a) Tolls on vehicles entering such area for business purposed;
and
(b) Octroi duty on goods brought for sale within such area;
Provided that no such duty shall be imposed on the goods which have already been subjected to the levy of such duty at the time of the entry into the limits of the local authority in which the fair area is situated.
7. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, no local authority shall be competent to impose any tax or fee in any fair area in connecting with a cattle fair during the continuance of the fair.
8. Every local authority, within whose jurisdictional limits a fair area or a part thereof is situated, shall render to the fair officer, for the purposes of holding, controlling, managing or regulating a cattle fair in such area, such assistance as may be required of it by the fair officer in connection with the cattle fair.
9. 11[(1) Every person selling cattle at a cattle fair shall obtain in respect of such cattle a registration certificate in such manner, on payment of such fee and from such authority, as may be prescribed.]
(2) Every person purchasing cattle at a Cattle Fair shall obtain in respect of such cattle a sale certificate in such manner, on payment of such fee and from such authority, as may be prescribed.