(1) Subject to the provisions of this section and of the rules providing for regulating the marketing of agricultural produce in any place in the market area, no person shall, on and after the date on which the declaration is made under sub-section (1) of section 4, without, or otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of, a licence (granted by the Director when a Market Committee has not yet started functioning; and in any other case, by the Market Committee) in this behalf,-
(a) use any place in the market area for the marketing of the declared agricultural produce, or
(b) operate in the market area or in any market therein as a trader, commission agent, broker, processor, weighman, measurer, surveyor, warehouseman or in any other capacity in relation to the marketing of the declared agricultural produce.
[(2A) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, marketing of agricultural produce specified in all the entries of items VII-Fruits and VIII-Vegetables and entries (2), (3), (4) and (5) of item X-Condiments, spices and others of the Schedule by any person outside the market established under section 5, except as provided in section 5D, shall not require any licence or permission, and shall not be regulated by the Market Committee.]
[(3) Every Market Committee shall reserve sufficient space in the market area of its principal and subsidiary markets for the agriculturists to enable them to sell their own agricultural produce directly to the consumers without the help of intermediaries and shall also look after the maintenance of such space.]