PUNJAB (MULTAN) TIMBER MARKET ACT, 1973

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THE PUNJAB (MULTAN) TIMBER MARKET ACT, 1973 
(II of 1973) 
CONTENTS 
1. Short title and Commencement. 
2. Definitions. 
3. Prohibition to carry on business. 
4. Allotments. 
5. Occupation of allotted sites. 
6. Penalty. 
7. Indemnity. 
8. Rules. 
9. Repeal. 
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THE PUNJAB (MULTAN) TIMBER MARKET ACT, 1973 
(II of 1973) 
[26th February, 1973] 
An 
Act 
to make provisions for Timber Market, Multan. 
Preamble.– WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the Timber Market, Multan; 
 It is hereby enacted as follows:– 
1. Short tit le and C ommencement.– (1) This Act may be called the Punjab 
(Multan) Timber Market Act, 1973. 
 (2) It shall come into force at once. 
2. Definitions.– In this Act the following expressions, unless the context 
otherwise requires, shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, 
that is to say– 
(i) “business” means dealing in timber including operation of hand -saw 
machine but does not include furniture making with the aid of hand -
saw; 
(ii) “Government” means the Government of the Punjab; 
(iii) “timber” includes bamboos but does not include fire-wood; and 
(iv) “Timber Market” means the area of the development scheme of the 
Multan Improvement Trust known as the Timber Market, Multan. 
3. Prohibition to carry on business .– (1) No person shall carry on business 
and operate or work hand -saw mach ine within the municipal limits of Multan 
Municipal Committee, except in the Timber Market. 
 (2) Nothing contained in sub -section (1) shall apply to the manufacture of 
furniture with the aid of hand-saw and the sale of furniture. 
4. Allotments.– The Multan  Improvement Trust or any other officer authorised 
by the said Trust in that behalf shall have the power to– 
(a) allot sites to timber merchants in the Timber Market; 
(b) determine the price of the site allotted to each timber merchant, the 
terms and conditions of payment thereof and the method of recovery of 
outstanding price; and 
(c) require the allottees to erect on the allotted sites such structures and 
within such period as may be prescribed by rules. 
                                                           
1This Act was passed by the Punjab Assembly on 7th February, 1973; assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on 24th 
February, 1973; and, published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 26th February, 1973, pages 471-A to 471-C. 
5. Occupation of allotted sites.– (1) Any person who has been allotted the site 
in the Timber Market shall occupy the said site and carry on business there within 
the period specified by the Multan Improvement Trust. 
 (2) If a person fails to occupy the allotted site or carry on business there 
within the p eriod specified under sub -section (1) his allotment shall be liable to 
cancellation and the site allotted to him 
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[* * * * * * *]. 
 (3) Any person aggrieved by an order under sub -section (2) may, within a 
period of thirty days of the order, appeal to the C ommissioner Multan, whose 
decision shall be final. 
 
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[Provided that no order under this sub -section shall be made unless an 
opportunity of being heard is provided to the appellant]. 
6. Penalty.– Any person who contravenes, attempts to contravene or abets t he 
contravention of the provisions of section 3 of this Act or the rules made thereunder 
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or 
with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both. 
7. Indemnity.– No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against 
Government, the Commissioner, Multan, the Multan Improvement Trust or its 
Chairman or other officers duly authorised in this behalf by the Trust in respect of 
any action taken or purporting to have been taken in good faith under this Act. 
8. Rules.– Government may made rules to give effect to the purposes of this 
Act. 
9. Repeal.– The Punjab (Multan) Timber Market Ordinance, 1972 (Punjab 
Ordinance No. XXIV of 1972) is hereby repealed. 
                                                           
2Omitted the words “and the price or part of price if any paid by him shall stand confiscated in favour of the Trust” by the Punjab 
(Multan) Timber Market (Amendment) Ordinance, 1985 (XXXI of 1985); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 
27.2.1985, pages 573-k-573-L, s.2. The pages in the Gazette were wrongly printed as 573-K and 753-L are corrected. 
3Proviso added ibid.