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BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 BALUCHISTAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE, 1980 CHAPTER XVI‑MARKET COMMITTEES 94. Powers to make rules.‑‑(1) The Government may, either generally or specially for any notified market area or areas, make rules consistent with the Ordinance for carrying out all or any of the purposes thereof. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may provide for :‑ (i) appointment and removal of members of market committees; (ii) Powers to be exercised and the duties to be performed by the Market Committees ; (iii) election of the Chairman and Vice‑Chairman of market committees and their powers and terms of office. (iv) filling of casual vacancies in the office of members or in the office of Chairman or Vice‑Chairman of market committees ; (v) time, place and manner in which a contract between buyer and seller is to be entered into and money is to be paid to the seller ; (vi) management of the market, maximum fee‑‑ which may be ‑levied by market committees in respect of agricultural produce brought or sold by licences in the notified market areas, and the recovery and disposal of such fee ; (vii) issuance, by market committees of licences to brokers, weighmen, measurers, surveyors, warehousemen, changarh, palledars, boriotas, tolas, tokrewalas. and rehriwalas, tae form in which and the conditions under which, such licences, shall be issued or renewed and the fee, if any, to be charged thereof. (viii) the place or places at which agricultural produce shall be weighed, the kind and description of the scales, weights and measures which alone may be used in transaction in agricultural produce in a notified market area ; (ix) inspection, verification, regulation, correction and confiscation of scales, weights and measures in use in a notified market area ; (x) trade allowances which may be made or received by any person in any transaction in agricultural produce in a notified market area ; (xi) (a) constitution, powers and functions of Board of Arbitrators. (b) procedure to be followed by Board of Arbitrators in the disposal of references under this Ordinance. (c) transfer of matters and cases from one Board of Arbitrators to another and the transfer of money in such cases. (d) representation in proceedings before Board of Arbitrators of parties who are minors or of unsound mind or are unable to make an appearance. (e) regulation of the scale of costs which may be allowed in proceedings before a Board of Arbitrators. (f ) prescribing and determining the amount of the fee payable in, respect of any proceedings before a Board of Arbitrators. (g) maintenance, by Board of Arbitrators of registers and records of proceedings before such Board and for the inspection of such registers and records ; (xii) prohibition of brokers from acting in the same transaction on behalf of both the buyer and the seller of agricultural produce. (xiii) provision of accommodation for storing any agricultural produce brought into the market ; (xiv) preparation of plans and estimates for works proposed to be cons?tructed partly or wholly at the expense of market committees, and the grant of sanction to such plans and estimates ; (xv) form in which the accounts of a market committee shall be kept, audit and publication of such accounts, and the charge, if any, to be made for such audit ; (xvi) management and regulation of provident fund which may be established by a market committee for the benefit of its employees ; (xvii) preparation and submission for sanction of annual budget and reports and returns to be furnished by a market committee ; (xviii) investment and disposal of surplus funds of a market committee ; (xix) prescribing any matters in respect of which fee shall be payable under this Ordinance, and fixing the amount of such fee and the mode of payment and recovery thereof ; (xx) exemption of persons or classes of persons from the obligation of obtaining licences under section 90 ; and (xxi) travelling expenses that may be paid to the members and employees of market committees ; (xxii) settlement of any question as to whether any person is or is not a grower ; (xxiii) appointment of members of market committee ; (xxiv) submission of a panel of growers, non‑official members and persons licensed under section 90 ; and (xxv) imposing on persons licensed under section 90, the duty of making return to market committee at regular intervals of transactions of sale and purchase affected by them, or at their place of business, and of producing accounts for inspection and furnishing information when called upon by an authority duly empowered and prescribing the form and mode of verification of, and the particulars to be entered in such returns as well as the nature of such information ; and (xxvi) (a) conditions of service of the employees of market committees and their grades of pay ; (b) schedule of the staff that may be employed by market committees ; (c) principles to be followed in making appointments of various posts under market committees and their appointing authorities ; (d) method for the holding of enquiries in disciplinary cases against servants of market committees, penalties to be imposed and appeals against orders imposing penalties ; (e) matters relating to transfer, retirement, training, pension, gratuities, medical aid, travelling and other allowances, leave, conduct of servants, terms and conditions ; (3) The Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Rules, 1940, as amended shall remain operative to the extent they are consistent with this Ordinance till such time new rules are framed under this Ordinance.