K.M. JOSEPH, J.

In this batch of appeals, there are several common questions and, therefore, we dispose of the same by the following common judgment.

2. On 01.11.2011, the Uttarakhand Legislature passed the Uttarakhand Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2011 (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”). It, inter alia, provided for the levy of market fee and development cess under Section 27(c)(iii), which read as follows:

“(iii) any such agricultural produce, which reaches any Market area of the State for sale, storage, processing or transaction from any other State or out of Country for the first time, it shall be registered as “First Arrival” and on such produce, Market fee and Development cess shall be payable.”

3. Nine writ petitions were filed. A contention was raised by petitioners therein that they were bringing the agricultural produce into the market area for the purpose of manufacture of various products. They also questioned the legislative competence of the State Legislature to enact a law permitting levy of market fee and development cess, as was provided. A learned Single Judge of this Court took the view that the provisions did not c