Section 70 in The Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007
70. Power to call for proceedings of Marketing Board and the State Marketing Officer.
(1)The State Marketing Officer may, on his own motion or on an application made to him, call for and examine the proceedings of the Marketing Board and the Government may on it's own motion or on application made to it, call for and examine the proceedings of the State Marketing Officer, for the purpose of satisfying himself or itself, as the case may be, as to the legality or propriety of any decision taken or order passed and as to the regularity of the proceedings of the Board or the State Marketing Officer, as the case may be. If, upon examination, it appears to the State Marketing Officer or the Government that any such decision, order or proceedings should be modified, annulled, reversed or remitted for reconsideration, he or it, as the case may be, may pass such order thereof as deemed fit:Provided that every application to the Government for the exercise of the powers under this section shall be filed within sixty days from the date on which the decision or order to which the application relates was communicated to the applicant:Provided further that no such order shall be passed under sub-section (1) without giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the parties affected thereto.(2)The Government or the State Marketing Officer, as the case may be, may suspend the execution of the decision taken or order passed by the State Marketing Officer or the Marketing Board, pending the exercise of it's/his powers under sub-section (1).
