(1) The Board may with the prior approval of the State Government create such posts and appoint officers and servants thereto as it may consider necessary for the efficient discharge of its duties.
(2) The conditions of service, functions and duties of the officers and servants of the Board shall be such as may be prescribed.
5. 3[ (1) Subject to the rules made under this Act, a fee shall be notified at a rate, as may be fixed by the State Government, from time to time but not more than two percent on the sale proceeds of agricultural produce bought or sold or brought for processing in the notified market area levied on the dealer for the purposes of this Act:
Provided that except in case of agricultural produce brought for processing –
(a) no fee shall be leviable in respect of any transaction in which delivery of the agricultural produce bought or sold is not actually made ; and
(b) the fee shall be leviable on the dealer only in respect of a transaction in which delivery is actually made :
4[Provided further that rate of fee on cotton with effect from 1st November, 2011 shall be 0.8 per centum :
3Substituted HRD Act No. 5 of 2023, dated 24.01.2023 4 Added vide Act No. 7 of 2012, dated 04.04.2012.
Officers and Servants of Board Imposition and Collection of Fee
Provided further that rate of fee on potato during the period from 22nd December, 2011 to 31st March, 2012 shall be 1 per centum :]
5[Provided further that with effect from 1st September, 2012, the rate of fee on vegetable and fruits only, as mentioned in Schedule under clause (b) of rule 2 of the Haryana Rural Development Rules, 1987, shall be one per centum :]
6[Provided further that from the date of notification of the Haryana Rural Development (Amendment) Act, 2014, no fee shall be charged on vegetables and fruits as mentioned in Schedule under clause (b) of rule 2 of the Haryana Rural Development Rules, 1987:]
7 [Provided further that the rate of fee on vegetables and fruits only, as mentioned in Scheduled under clause (b) of rule 2 of the Haryana Rural Development Rules, 1987, shall be one per centum.]
(2) The fee as hereinfore provided shall be paid by the dealer in such manner as may be prescribed to such officer or person, as may be appointed or designated by the Board in this behalf.
(3) Since the burden of fee imposed by sub-section (1) is not intended to be put on the dealer, the dealer shall be under a statutory obligation to add the amount of fee in the purchase price recoverable by him from the next purchaser of agricultural produce or the goods processed or manufactured out of it.
(4) The arrears of fee shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue.