ACT No. 6 OF 2023. - An Act further to Amend the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1987

No. 96] CHENNAI, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2023 Panguni 6 Subakiruthu, Thiruvalluvar Aandu–2054

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 15th March 2023 and is hereby published for general information:—

ACT No. 6 OF 2023.

An Act further to Amend the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce

Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1987.

B(cid:3469) it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of

Tamil Nadu in the Seventy-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Short title and 1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce

commencement.

Marketing (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2023.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 30th day

of November 2022.

Tamil Nadu Act

Amendment of 27 of 1989.

section 33.

2. In section 33 of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1987 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in the proviso to sub-section (1), for the expression "eleven years and six months", the expression " twelve years and six months" shall be substituted.

Tamil Nadu

Repeal and 3. (1) The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation)

Ordinance 5 of

saving.

Second Amendment Ordinance, 2022 is hereby repealed.

2022.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.

Validation. 4. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act, every person exercising the powers and discharging the functions of a Special Offi cers of the market committees, with effect on and from the 30th day of November 2022, shall be deemed to have been appointed as such Special Offi cers under sub-section (1) of section 33 of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, and anything done or any action taken by the said Special Offi cers during the period commencing on the 30th day of November 2022 and ending with 15th day of December 2022, shall be deemed to have been validly done or taken under the principal Act, as amended by this Act.

(By Order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.