Punjab Agricultural Marketing Regulatory Authority Act, 2018

From: 2018-05-24 - To: 0000-00-00 An Act to provide for the systematic growth and transformation of the marketing of agricultural produce. It is necessary to establish an Authority to facilitate and regulate the systematic growth and transformation of the marketing of agricultural produce; to assist the development of agricultural commerce through multiple channels; to provide meaningful support to the growers; and, to make for incidental provisions. Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows: 1. Short title, extent and commencement.– (1) This Act may be cited as the Punjab Agricultural Marketing Regulatory Authority Act 2018. (2) It extends to whole of the Punjab. (3) It shall come into force at once. 2. Definitions.– In this Act: (a) “Act” means the Punjab Agricultural Marketing Regulatory Authority Act 2018; [2][(b) “agricultural marketing” means all activities and functions involved in the flow of agricultural produce from the production points commencing from the stage of harvest till these reach the end consumers including grading, processing, storage, transport, channels of distribution for sale and purchase of agriculture produce;] (c) “agricultural produce” means such agricultural produce as the Government may specify by notification in the official Gazette and includes any agricultural produce which is dried, graded, polished and packed but does not include the produce that undergoes any other form of value addition; [3][(cc) “Auction Market” in relation to a market means a specified place and includes any enclosures, buildings or locality especially set up by the Authority for auction of agricultural produce;] (d) “Authority” means the Punjab Agricultural Marketing Regulatory Authority [4][established under section 3 of the Act]; (e) “buyer” includes a person who buys an agricultural produce for himself or for another person; (f) “collection center” means a place set up by a dealer and registered under the Act where a grower may bring agricultural produce for grading, polishing, packing or sale; (g) “commission agent” means a person who, in consideration of a commission or on his own trading account, acts for a grower and makes or…