(1) Any license or written permission, granted under the provisions of this Act, or the rules framed thereunder, shall specify the period and locality for which, and the conditions and restrictions subject to which the same is granted, and shall be given under the signature of the competent authority by charging such fee, as may be prescribed.
(2) If any of the conditions or restrictions, subject to which a license or written permission was granted under this Act, is infringed or evaded by the person to whom it was granted, or if such person is convicted of any offence in any matter to which such license or permission relates, the license or written permission so granted, shall be suspended or revoked by the competent authority.
(3) When any such license or written permission is suspended or revoked, or when the period for which the same was granted has expired, the person to whom the same was granted, shall, for all purposes of this Act, be deemed to be without a license or written permission, until the order for suspending or revoking the same, is cancelled, or until the same is renewed, as the case may be.
(4) Every person to whom any such license or written permission has, been granted, shall, while the same remains in force, at all reasonable times, produce the same, if so, required by a police officer.
Explanation- For the purpose of this section, any such infringement or evasion by, or conviction of, a servant or other agent acting on behalf of the person, to whom the license or written permission has been granted, shall be deemed to be infringement or evasion by, or as the case may be, conviction of the person to whom such license or written permission has been granted.
Licenses and permissions.
77. Any public notice required to be given under any of the provisions of this Act, shall be in writing under the signature of the competent authority and shall be published in the locality, to be affected thereby, by affixing copies thereof in conspicuous public places, or by proclaiming the same with beat of drums, or by advertising the same in such local newspapers of English or regional language or Hindi as the said authority may deem fit, or by any two or more of these means or by any other means, as it may think suitable:
Provided that the publication of notice may be dispensed with by the competent authority in public interest for reasons, to be recorded in writing.
78. Whenever under this Act, the doing of or the omission to do anything or the validity of anything depends upon the consent, approval, declaration, opinion or satisfaction of a competent authority, a written document, signed by a competent authority purporting to convey or set forth, such consent, approval, declaration, opinion or satisfaction, shall be sufficient evidence thereof
79. Every license, written permission, notice, or other document, not being a summons or warrant, search warrant, required by this Act, or the rules made thereunder, to bear the signature of the competent authority, shall be deemed to be properly signed, if it bears a facsimile of its signature stamped thereon.