Section 4, **The Rice Corporation (Repeal) Act, 1980**

With effect from the appointed date, it shall be the duty of the Produce Marketing Board to— (*a*) take over, operate, maintain and manage the undertakings transferred to the Produce Marketing Board by this Act; (*b*) establish, manage and work such installations as it may deem it expedient to establish; (*c*) maintain and where necessary develop any premises, workshops, depots, stores, sales centres and any other things necessary for rice and for the efficient operation of the Produce Marketing Board; (*d*) engage in any requisite constructional activities in connection with the functions conferred upon it by this Act whether ancillary to its own needs, to those of the Government or, subject to the approval of the Minister, to those of the general public; (*e*) carry on any business usually associated with an undertaking engaged in the planting, cultivation, harvesting, import, export, purchase, transportation, milling, sale or distribution of rice. [Margin: Importation, exportation and dealing of rice.]