(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force, the State Government may, by notification, declare any area as a market-area within which purchase and sale of such agricultural produce as may be specified in the notification, shall be regulated.
(2) On the publication of such notification under sub-section (1), or with effect from such later date as may be specified therein, no local authority or other person shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law for the time being in force, within the market area, or within such distance thereof as may be notified in the Official Gazette in this behalf, setup, establish or continue or allow to be setup, established or continued any place for the purchase or sale of such agricultural produce as has been specified in the notification under sub-section (1), except in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder.
Explanqtion.—A local authority or any other person shall not be deemed to set up, establish or continue or allow to be set up, established or continued a place as a place for the purchase or sale of agricultural produce within the meaning of this section, if the seller is himself the producer of the agricultural produce or any person employed by such producer and the buyer is a person who purchases such produce for his own use.
(3) The State Government may, by notification, include or exclude any area in or from a market area, as the case may be, or include or exclude any agricultural produce in or from the list of agricultural produce.