(1) Application for grant of licences as Weighers, Samplers and Graders may be made by persons who passess the qualification specified in sub-rule (2) and every such application shall be accompanied by a fee of five rupees and shall be made in writing in Form No. 10 to the Prescribed Authority.
(2) Every Weigher, Sampler or Grader shall possess the minimum qualification specified below:
(i) A Weigher shall be a literate person knowing reading and writing of Kannada.
(ii) A Sampler or Grader shall have passed the VIII standard.
(3) The Prescribed Authority may, after such enquiry as he deems. Fit, grant the licence applied for in Form No.11 on execution of an agreement by the applicant in such form as may be determined by the Prescribed Authority agreeing to confirm with these rules and the conditions specified in sub-rule (4)
(4) The license under sub-rule (3) shall be subject to the conditions, namely:-
(i) The Licencee shall keep books in such forms and render such prescribed returns and at such times and in such forms as the prescribed authority may from time to time direct;
(ii) The Licencee shall possess such equipments as may be specified by the prescribed Authority;
(iii) The Licencee when plying his trade, shall wear a distinguishing badge of a suitable pattern provided by the Prescribed Authority.
A deposit of not less than one and not more than five rupees to cover the cost of badge shall be paid by such Weigher, Sampler of Grader to the Prescribed Authority;
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(iv) No licensee shall recover charges excluding the rates laid down by the Prescribed Authority from time to time;
(v) No licensee shall enter the service of another person or do business other than that for which he holds a licence.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (3), the Prescribed Authority may refuse to grant license to any person who in his opinion is not solvent or whose operations are not likely to further the efficient working of the Warehouse:
Provided that no solvency certificate for the grant of license shall be necessary in the case of Weigher, or Sampler who is an employee of a Warehouse Corporation established under the Agricultural Produce (Development and Warehousing) Corporation Act, 1956 or the Warehousing Corporation Act, 1962.