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ACT I OF 1991 ACT I OF 1991 BALOCHISTAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKETS ACT, 1991 An Act to provide for the better regulation of purchase and sale of agricultural produce and the establishment of markets for agricultural produce in the Balochistan Province [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 25th November, 1991] No. PAB/Legis.III(3)/91, dated 25-11-1991.--The Balochistan Agricultural Produce Markets Bill, 1991 having been passed by the Province Assembly of Balochistan on 9th October, 1991 and assented to by the Governor of Balochistan, is hereby published as an Act of the Provincial Assembly. 2. Definitions.--In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (a) "agricultural produce" means: (i) barley and its atta; sattu, bhusa; (ii) bajra (grains) and its atta; . (iii) cotton unginned (Phutti), cotton ginned (lint), cotton waste; (iv) chillies (green, dry and ground); (v) fodders viz. senji, lucern; shaftal, berseem, shalgham, guara, chari, bajra, maize, javi, barley, wheat, jowar (green and dry) and their seeds methi, metha, swank, oats, ajwain; (vi) fruits and vegetables (fresh and dry) and their squashes, jams pickles, cordials, marmalades, chutnies, sauce, jellies, candies, juices; (vii) firewood and tanning bark; (viii) gram (whole and split) and its chollia, atta, kera, surri, bura, wanda. (ix) Jute (seed and fibre), oisal (seed, juice and fibre); (x) jowar (grains) and its atta; (xi) livestock viz. (male or female, milch or draft) goat, sheep, buffalo, cow, camel, horse, and poultry including turkeys (dressed or otherwise) fish and livestock products viz. beef, mutton, hides and skins (dry and wet) bones, bone meals, feeds, wool, hair, eggs, cheese, butter, desi ghee, milk and curd (dehi) marjarin; (xii) mehndi (leaves and powder); (xiii) maize (grains), maize cobs (dry and green) and its atta, starch, sugar (glucose), gluten meals and wastes; (xiv) oilseeds viz. cotton-seed, linseed, sarson raya, toria, taramira, soyabeen, sunflower, til, groundnut, castor, palm and their oils, oil-cakes, hulls, meals feeds, vegetables ghee; (xv) pulses (whole and split) viz. moong, mash, masoor, moth, raj mash, arhar, lobia, gram and other beans; (xvi) rice (paddy), rice (cleaned), rice (broken), phak, parali, hulls, husks (rice silver), parboiled; (xvii) sugarcane and `its products viz. gur, shakkar, sugar (desi and refined), molasses, sugarcane juice; (xviii) tobacco leaves, tobacco cured and its snuff or naswar guraku; (xix) wheat and its atta, maida, suji, dalia, starch, choker, bran, bhusa; and any other commodity that may hereafter be declared by notification to be agricultural produce for the purposes of this Act. (b) "dealer" means any person who within the notified market area sets up, establishes, uses or allows to be used any place for the purchase or sale of the agricultural produce; (c) "Director-General of Agriculture" means Director-General of Agriculture, Balochistan; (d) "Director of Agriculture (Economics and Marketing)" means the Director of Agriculture (Economics and Marketing), Balochistan; (e) "Director Extension" means the Director Agriculture Extension in uny region of Balochistan or Balochistan Province; (f) "Deputy Director of Agriculture (Economics and Marketing)" means the Deputy Director of Agriculture (Economics and Marketing) concerned; (g) "Deputy Commissioner" means the Deputy Commissioner of the district within the boundaries of which the notified market area concerned is situated; (h) "Extra-Assistant Director of Agriculture (Economics and Marketing)" means the Extra-Assistant Director of Agriculture (Economics and Marketing) concerned; (i) "Grower" means a person who by himself or through tenants or otherwise grows, rears, produces, manufactures or processes agricultural produce but shall not include a person, other than a member of a society registered under the Cooperative Societies Act, 1925, who works as a dealer or broker either individually or as a partner of a firm of dealers or brokers or is otherwise engaged in the business of disposal, storage or processing of agricultural produce; (j) "Government" means the Government of Balochistan Province; (k) "Market" means a building, block of buildings enclosure or other area which may be so notified in accordance with rules framed under this Act; (l) "Market Committee" means a market committee established under section 7 of this Act; (m) "notified market area" means any area notified under section 4 of this Act; (n) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules or bye-laws made under this Act; (o) "Secretary Market Committee" means the Secretary of the Market Committee concerned; (p) "trade allowance" means such allowance as may be prescribed under the rules or may be specified in the bye-laws of market committee; (q) "Ware-houseman" includes a person who stores any agricultural produce not belonging to himself and charges rent therefor in any form, from the persons at whose instance the said produce is so stored; (r) "cold store" means a controlled atmosphere store used for the storing the agricultural products.