4No other wholesale market permitted within Newcastle marketing district

4 No other wholesale market permitted within Newcastle marketing district

4 No other wholesale market permitted within Newcastle marketing district

(1) Where, on and after the appointed day, the Council provides within its area a public market for the sale by wholesale of fruit and vegetables, the power conferred by subsection one of section four hundred and fifty-four of the Principal Act upon any council the area of which is within the Newcastle marketing district is suspended for the period of twenty-five years that next succeeds the appointed day in so far as it authorises such a council to provide, manage and control within that district any other public market for the sale by wholesale of fruit and vegetables other than exempt fruit and vegetables.

(2) No person shall, during the period of twenty-five years that next succeeds the appointed day:

(a) establish any public market within the Newcastle marketing district for the purpose of selling by wholesale fruit and vegetables other than exempt fruit and vegetables, or

(b) expand any public market used for that purpose immediately before that day within the areas that, on and after that day, comprise that district.

Penalty: Five hundred dollars and for each day upon which the offence continues, one hundred dollars.

(3) Without prejudice to the operation of subsection one of this section, subsection two of this section does not apply to or in respect of a council referred to in subsection one of this section.