The New Delhi Municipal Council Act

Provision of municipal market

Use of municipal markets and slaughter house

Private markets

Conditions of grant of licence for private market

Prohibition of keeping market open without licence, etc

Prohibition of use of unlicensed markets

Prohibition of business and trade near a market

Levy of stallages, rents and fees

Power to expel disturbers, etc., from markets

Butcher's fish-monger's and poulter's licence


Maintenance and regulation of markets


(1) No animal or article shall be sold or
exposed for sale within a distance of one hundred metres of any municipal market or licensed private
market without the permission of the Chairperson.

(2) Any person contravening the provisions of sub-section (1) and any animal or article exposed for
sale by such person may be summarily removed by or under the orders of the Chairperson or any officer
or employee of the Council appointed by him in this behalf.

LAWGIST

# 322 Prohibition of business and trade near a market