(1) - The Wood Based Industries and premises shall not be leased out to any person without intimating the licensing authority. For any acts of omission of lessee, license holder shall be held responsible.
(2) No transfer of licence of Wood Based Industries from one Person / Firm to another by way of sale, inheritance, division of property, family arrangement, dissolution of partnership shall be done without prior permission from the Licensing Authority.
(3) In case the Wood Based Industries premises is to be changed, –or when the machinery is to be shifted from one place to another within same forest division, such changes shall not be done without prior approval of licensing authority. Shifting of Wood Based Industries shall not be allowed within 5 Kms from forest boundary except the areas falling within limits of Municipal corporations and district headquarter.
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(4) On account of transfer of ownership or shifting of WBI, total number of Machines shall not be increased, the machine type shall not be changed from one type to another and multiple licenses shall not be given from a single license by splitting the license.
(5) On receipt of an application for such shifting of Wood Based Industries, the licensing authority shall make such enquiry as he deems fit, and after satisfying himself, whether or not there would be any objection to grant permission for transfer of Wood Based Industries applied for, having regard to safeguarding the timber in any reserved, protected, proposed, or private forest, number of wood based industries existing in the area, may grant permission for transfer of Wood Based Industries license in the “ Form II” of these rules subject to the conditions set out therein. Licensing Authority shall pass speaking orders giving detailed reasons for accepting or rejecting such application.
(7) No transfer of Wood Based Industries shall be permitted by any authority outside the territorial jurisdiction of the existing Licensing Authority.