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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. 4. Declaration of notified area.--(1) After the expiry of the period specified in the notification under section 3 and after considering such objections and suggestions as may be received before the expiry of the specified period, the Government may, by notification and in any other manner that may be prescribed, declare the area notified under section 3 or any portion thereof to be a notified market area for the purposes of this Act and the agricultural produce over which control is to be exercised in that area. (2) Government may at any time by notification declare its intention to exclude any area which is already declared ass notified market area and also to include or include any area and in so doing the procedure laid down in section 3 and subsection (1) of this section shall be followed. (3) After the date of issue of such notification and on the establishment of market committee under section 7, no local authority, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law entitling such local authority to establish a market, and no person for himself or on behalf of another person unless exempted by rules framed under this Act, shall, within the notified market area, set up, establish or use any place for the purchase or sale of the agricultural produce or purchase, sell, store or process such agricultural produce except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence granted under the provisions of this Act: Provided that a licence shall not be required by a grower who either himself or through a bona ride agent cells his own agricultural produce or the produce of his tenant or by a person who purchases any agricultural produce for his private or domestic use: Provided further that in the case of a market committee established for the first time under this Act no person shall be deemed to have violated this provision if he has made an application to the market committee for grant of licence. (4) No person shall within the market store, purchase, sell or in any other manner deal in any commodity which is not declared as agricultural produce.