(1)The following shall be procedure for grant of licence,-
(a) Application for licence or permit to organize arrow shooting under Section 5 of the Act, 2018 shall be in Form I appended to these Rules and may be submitted at any time to the Commissioner duly affixed with Court Fee Stamp of rupees ten only.
(b) The application for Bookmaker shall be made in Form – II appended to these Rules:
Provided that where a date has been notified for receipt of applications the same shall have to be submitted within such date and no application received after that date shall be entertained.
(2) The Commissioner of Taxes shall recommend, forward the applications received by him under sub-rule (1) above to the State Government for its consideration.
(3) Applications not furnishing all the particulars or information as required in the application form shall not be entertained.
(4) Where a licence is applied on behalf of an organization, the person signing the application should be a duly authorized person. Where the applicant is an individual, he should sign the application on his own behalf. The details of the office bearers of the organization or the personal detail of the applicant should be furnished along with the application.
(5) The State Government may grant or refuse to grant a licence or may call for such further particulars or information or documents as the officer authorized in this behalf by the Government as it deems fit.
(6) The licence granted under these rules shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issue and will expire on the 31st of March every year and no licence shall be issued, unless the applicant in whose favour a licence has been decided to be granted has paid the licence fee prescribed under these Rules:
Provided that the licence of bookmaker issued to a permit holder shall remain co-terminus valid with the permit.
(7) Application for renewal of the licence may be submitted within thirty days before the date of expiry of the period of its validity to the State Government through Commissioner of Taxes in Form I appended to these Rules duly filled and affixing a Court Fee Stamp of rupees ten only.
(8) Where a Licence is renewed under this rule, the applicant shall pay a renewal fee as provided in these Rules before the Licence can be issued to him.
(9) All the provisions of these Rules regulating application for licence and grant thereof shall, unless otherwise provided, apply in case of renewal of licence.