(1) The Competent Authority may after affording a reasonable opportunity of being heard, by an order in writing, remove the name of the Agency for hoarding or the Agency for display from the e-register and cancel the certificate on any of the following grounds, namely:—
(a) if the Agency contravenes the provisions of section 17;
(b) if the Agency is declared an insolvent by a Court of competent jurisdiction and has not been discharged;
(c) if the Agency is guilty of three consecutive violations of the conditions contained in the permissions granted under section 11 or three consecutive violations of the procedure spelt out in section 12 or both.
(2) Any Agency for display or Agency for hoarding whose name is removed from the e-register under sub-section (1) shall forthwith remove every hoarding erected by it and remove every display put up by it, respectively. Any delay in removing the hoarding beyond the stipulated period specified in sub section (12) of section 11, or the period of 15 days in case of displays shall be punishable with penalty under section 21.