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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. 8. Constitution of the market committees.--(1) A market committee shall consist of ten or seventeen members as Government may in each case determine. (2) Of these members one may be appointed by Government from amongst the employees of the Agriculture Department. (3) The remaining members shall be appointed by Government out of a panel of names recommended by the Deputy Commissioner equal to twice the number of vacancies to be filled in the manner provided hereunder, that is to say: (a) if the committee is to consist of ten members, there shall be appointed-- (i) five members from growers of the notified market area concerned; and (ii) two members from persons licensed under section 6 and one member from persons licensed under section 9 and working as a weighman, broker or palledar in the notified market area concerned; and (iii) one member from amongst the consumers resident in the notified market area concerned who is not a dealer or a grower. (b) if the committee is to consist of seventeen members, they shall be appointed:-- (i) nine members from growers of the notified market area concerned; (ii) rive members from persons licenced under section 6 and one member from persons working as a weighman, broker or palledar from the notified market area concerned who is not a dealer or a grower; and (iii) one member from amongst the consumers resident in the notified market area concerned who is not a dealer or a grower. (4) 1f any question arises as to whether any person is or is not a grower for the purposes of this Act the decision of the Deputy Commissioner shall be final. (5) Not more than one person related to each other as father, son, brother, uncle, brother-in-law, son-in-law and their ascendants and descendants shall be appointed as a member of the same market committee. (6) No person shall be appointed as a member of market committee for two consecutive terms. (7) No act done by a market committee shall be called in question on the ground merely of the existence of any vacancy, or any defect in the constitution of the market committee.