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The Kerala Warehouses Act, 1960 (President's Act No.2 of 1960)State Act of Kerala · Act 2 of 1960

(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of thts Act.

(2) In particular and w1ihoul prej udace to the generali ly of the foregomg power, such rules may provide for-

(a) the matters express'y required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed ;

(b) the condttions lo be inserted in licences to be granted to warehousemen and the form of such licences ;

(c) the publication of the grant, suspension or cancellation of licences to warehousemen and of consolidated lists of ware­ housemen and licensed warehouses;

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(d) the charges to be levied by warehousemen for their services;

(e) the books, accounts and records to be maintained by warehousemel\ ;

(f) the conduct of 1public auctions for the sale of goods deteriorating or about to deteriorate in lit'ensed warehouses and the manner m which the proceeds of such sales shall be account­ ed for;

(g) the scales of losses and gains of weight or bulk which may be sustamed by goods owing to shrinkage or dryage 1n the one case and owmg to absorption of moisture in the other;

(h) the disinfection of licensed warehouses and the disin­ festation of goods stored therein;

(i) the manner in which any sum fallmg due as a result of forfe1Lure of security may be recovered;

(j) the efficient conduct generally of the business of warehousemen.

(k) the quahfications to be possessed by persons applying for the grant of licences as weighers, samplers or graders; the conditions to be inserted m their hcences ; the form of the certificates to be issued by them and the grounds for which the licences may be suspended or cancelled ;

(l) ·the establishment and conduct of warehouses by co­ operative societies ;

(m) the standard weights, measures and gradations of goods to be used in licensed warehouses ;

(n) the authority to which and the time within which an appeal under section 30 should be made; and

(o) the manner of g1vrng notices under this Act.

(3) The power to make rules under this section shall be subject to the condition of previous publication.

( 4) All rules made under this section shall be laid for not less than seven days before the Legislative Assembly as soon as possible after they are made and shall be subject to such modi· fications as the Legislative Assembly may make durmg thE> session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Kerala Warehouses Act, 1960 (President's Act No.2 of 1960)
Section38
Marginal noteRuLes
JurisdictionState of Kerala
StatusIn force as published by the source

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