(1) The prescribed authority may, on application made in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, issue licences to persons possessing the prescribed qualification entitling them to act as weighers, samplers and graders of any goods deposited or to be deposited in a licensed warehouse and to issue 1 Omitted by Punjab Act No.1 of 1961,section 2.
Discrimination prohibited.
Warehouseman not to deal in or lend against goods in warehouse.
Accounts ,etc., to be maintained .
Inspection.
Weighers, Samplers and Granders to obtain licences.
certificates as to the weight, bulk, quality or grade of the goods which they have examined.
(2) The prescribed authority may appoint a Board of Arbitrators whose decisions on any complaint against weighers, samplers and classifiers or warehouseman relating to weight, quality or grade of the goods stored in the warehouse shall be final. The certificates issued by weighers, samplers and classifiers as to weight, quality or grade of the goods in the warehouse shall be binding on the warehouseman and the depositor subject to any order in appeal preferred by them to the Board of Arbitrators.
(3) No person who is not licensed under this section shall act, or hold himself out, as a weigher, sampler or grader.