Punjab act 020 of 2018 : The Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets (Amendment) Act, 2018 (20 of 2018)

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GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB

NOTIFICATION

The 26th September, 2018 No.21-Leg./2018.- The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 12th day of September, 2018, is hereby published for general information:-

THE PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKETS

(AMENMDENT) ACT, 2018

(Punjab Act No. 20 of 2018)

AN

ACT

further to amend the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Sixty-ninth year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Agricultural Prod uce Markets Short uve and

1encement.

(Amendment) Act, 2018.

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(2) Itshall come into force on and with effect from the date of its publication

in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (hereinafter Substitution of ] section 25-A of

referred to as the principal Act), for section 25-A, the following se ction shal Punjab Act 23 of

be substituted, namely:-

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"2o-Aa «: (1) The State Government, may b y notification Jevy

_ Agricultural Produce Price Stabilization Fee on Price Stabilization the commission paid to a licensed commission a gent

Fund. - :

< on sale, purchase or both, of agricultural

produce in

the market yards declared under sections 7 to 7-F of this Act, at such

rate, as may be notified by the Government from t ime to time.

(2) Allreceipts under sub-section (1) shall b e credited into a fund to be

called the Price Stabilization Fund and the account of said Fund shall be

maintained separately, which shall not be utilize d for the purpose other than it

is made for.".

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3. Inthe principabAct, in section 26, at the end of clause (xxi), for the sign Amendment in

"." the sign and word "; and" shall be substituted and thereafter, the following section 26 of Punjab Act 23 of

clause shall be added, namely:- 1961.

"(xxii) contribution for Price Stabilization Fund.".

Amendment in 4. In the principal Act, in section 28,- section 28 of

(i) the word "and" occurring at the end of clause (xx) shall be omitted; p,__ jab Act 23 of and | : 1961.

(ii) atthe end of clause (xxi), for the sign "" the sign and wor d °: and'

shall be substituted and thereafter, the following clause shal l be

added, namely:-

"(xxii) contribution for Price Stabilization Fund.".

VIVEK PURI,

Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs.

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