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Section 39

Section 39. Bye-laws

(1) - A market Committee may make bye-laws not inconsistent with this Act and the rules made thereunder, to provide for :

(i) regulation of its business ;

(ii) appointment, powers, duties and functions of the SubCommittee, if any, appointed under clause (vii) of section 17 ;

(iii) duties of traders, brokers, commission agents, warehousemen, weighmen and palledars ; and

(iv) any other matter which by or under this Act is required to be provided or by bye-laws ;

1[Provided that no bye-law, other than a bye-law made by adopting draft or model bye-law suggested by the 2[Board], shall be valid unless approved by the 2[Board]. ].

(2) - If, in respect of any matter specified in sub-section (1), the Committee has failed to make any bye-laws or if the bye-laws made by the Committee are not, in the opinion of the 2[Board], adequate, the 2[Board] may make bye-laws providing for such matters to such extent as it thinks fit.

3[(3)- The power under this section to make bye-laws shall be exercised subject to any general or special directions issued by the State Government in that behalf. ]

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.