Section 267:
Power to transfer by public auction, etc.
(1) The Board may transfer by public auction, for
any period not exceeding five years at a time, the right to occupy or use any stall, shop, standing, shed or
pen in a public market, or public slaughter-house or the right to expose goods for sale in a public market
or the right to weigh or measure goods sold therein, or the right to slaughter animals in any public
slaughter-house:
Provided that where the Board is of opinion that such transfer of the aforesaid rights by public auction
is not considered desirable or expedient, it may, with the previous sanction of the General Officer
Commanding-in-Chief, the Command or in his absence, the Principal Director,--
(a) either levy such stallages, rents or fees as it thinks fit; or
(b) farm the stallages, rents and fees leviable under clause (a) for any period not exceeding one
year at a time:
Provided further that the enjoyment of any such aforesaid right by any person for any length of time
shall never be deemed to create or confer any tenancy right in such stall, shop, standing, shed, pen, public
market or public slaughter-house.
(2) The Board may transfer by public auction or otherwise any immovable property other than in a
public market or a public slaughter house if such property is capable of being put to remunerative use for
such period and on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the General Officer
Commanding-in-Chief, the Command or in his absence, the Principal Director.