(1) The licence if granted shall be required to be renewed every three years and the licensing authority may refuse to renew or terminate or suspend a licence for violation of any of the conditions of the licence or for any other sufficient reasons to be recorded in writing and communicated to the licence :
Provided that no order refusing to renew or terminating the licence shall be passed without giving an opportunity to the licence of being heard, and the suspension of the licnese shall not be for a period exceeding three months at a time.
(2) The application for renewal shall be made at least three months before the expiry of the period for which the licnese is valid :
Provided that the licensing authority may waive this condition in individual cases if sufficient cause is shown for not filing the application in time.
5. No person shall, without or otherwise than in conformity with the terms of the licence granted by the licensing authority, keep open any market or wilfully or negligently permit any place to be used as a market or expose good for sale at a sale at a place not so licensed.
6. Licensing authority may by order close any place which has been or is being used as a market without any licence and may thereupon take steps to prevent such place from being used as a market.
7. No person shall sell or expose for sale any rotten or de-composed articles of food in any market.
8. The licensee shall keep the site of the market and the drains therein clean.
9. The licensing authority may, by a written order direct the licencee of a market-
(a) to cause the whole or any portion of the floor of the market, to be raised or paved with dressed stone or other suitable material ;
Powers to renew, suspend, terminate licences.
Prohibition of unlicensed.
Duty of sellers.
Duty of the licencee.
Power to give directions.
Power of licensing authority to close unlicensed markets.
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(b) to cause such drains to be made in or from the market, of such material size and description, at such level, and with such outfall as may appear necessary to the licensing authority ;
(c) to cause supply of water to be provided for keeping market, in a clean and wholesome state ;
(d) to cause any shop, stall, shed or other structure in the market to be altered or improved in such manner as the licensing authority may consider necessary ;
(e) to lay out, construct, alter, clear, widen, pave, drain and light, to the satisfaction of the licensing authority, approaches, streets passages and ways to or in the market ;
(f) to provide conveniences for the use of persons resorting to the market Provided that no such order shall be passed without giving an opportunity to the licencee of being heard ;
Provided further that the order specify a time limit within which the directions are required to be carried out.
10. No licencee shall charge tolls in excess of the schedule of tolls notified by the Government from time to time.