(1) Every license granted to a person entitling him to act as a weigher, measurer, sampler and grader under section 19 shall be valid for the prescribed period and may, on application and on payment of the prescribed fee, be renewed from time to time for the prescribed period by the Prescribed Authority.
(2) The Prescribed Authority may, if there are sufficient grounds, cancel any such license, after communicating to the licensee the grounds on which it is proposed to take action and giving him a reasonable opportunity of showing cause.
(3) The Prescribed Authority may, pending proceedings for cancellation of any such license, suspend the license.
21. Every warehouseman shall provide facilities for weighing, measuring, sampling and grading any goods deposited in his warehouse.
CHAPTER V.
Warehouse Receipts.
22. For the goods deposited in a licensed warehouse by each - depositor, the warehouseman shall issue a receipt in the prescribed form containing particulars relating to the goods.
23. A warehouse receipt shall, unless it is otherwise specified thereon, be transferable by endorsement and delivery and shall entitle any lawful holder thereof to receive the goods specified in it as if he were the original depositor.
24. If a warehouse receipt is lost, destroyed, torn or defaced, the warehouseman shall, on application by the depositor and on payment by him of the prescribed fee, issue a duplicate warehouse receipt in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed.
Ware.
house receipts.
Warehouse receipts to be transfer.
able by endorsement and delivery.
Duplicate warehouse receipt.
CHAPTER VI.
Miscellaneous.
Appeals. 25. (1) The State Government shall appoint an authority (elsewhere in this Act referred to as the Appellate Authority) for hearing and deciding—
(i) appeals against any order refusing to grant or refusing to renew a license to a warehouseman;
The West Bengal Warehouses Ad, 1963. 7 XLI of 1963.]
(Chapter VI.-11Liscellaneous.—Sections 26-32.)
(ii) appeals against any order cancelling the license of a warehouseman;
(iii) any reference under sub-section (4) of section 13;
(iv) appeals against any decision of an authority referred to in the proviso to sub-section (2) of section 19.
(2) The decision of the Appellate Authority shall be final.
(3) The procedure to be followed in such appeals or reference, the fee and the period of limitation therefor, shall be such as may be prescribed.
26. The State Government, if it thinks fit to do so in the public interest, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make any alterations in the Schedule by making any modifications therein, or additions thereto or omissions therefrom,
27. When a license under Chapter II or Chapter IV expires or when the renewal df such license is refused or when such license is cancelled, the licensee shall forthwith return the license to the Warehouse Authority or the Prescribed Authority, as the case may be.
28. Where a license under Chapter II or Chapter IV is lost, destroyed, torn or defaced, the Warehouse Authority or the Prescribed Authority, as the case may be, shall, on application made in this behalf and on payment of the prescribed fee, issue a duplicate license in the prescribed, manner.
29. Where any license under Chapter II or Chapter IV is cancelled, the licensee shall not be entitled to any compensation therefor, nor shall he be entitled to the refund of any fee paid by him for the license.
30. Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, a co-operative society shall be allowed such priorities for storing their goods as may be prescribed.
31. The State Government may, by notification in the Ufficial Gazette, for reasons to be recorded, exempt any class of warehousemen from all or any of the provisions of this Act.
Power to alter Schedule.
Return of license.
Duplicates of license.
No compensa• tion for cancella.
tion of license.
Special provision for co• operative societies.
Power to exempt.