section 8
Applications for licences, fees to be paid and cancellation or suspension of licences
The Himachal Pradesh Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1969General196945 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Any person may apply to the authority specified in section 7 for a licence which shall be granted for such period, in such form, on such conditions and on payment of such fees not exceeding Rs. 100, as may be prescribed : Provided that if any person carrying on any business of the nature specified in sub-section
- (3) of section 4 in a notified market area fails to apply for a licence on or before such date as the Board may, by notification, appoint in respect of that area, the licensing authority may refuse to grant him a licence until after the expiry of such period not exceeding three years as it may think fit : Provided further that the Board may, in its discretion, issue a licence to such person and may, before issuing such licence, impose such penalty not exceeding two thousand rupees as it may think fit.
- (2) The Board or its Chairman or Secretary or any other officer authorised by the Board may, on being satisfied that there has been a breach of any of the conditions specified in a licence, by an order in writing, cancel or suspend such licence, and may also direct that such licence shall not be renewed for such period not exceeding five months for a first breach and not exceeding nine months for a second breach as may be specified in that order : Provided that no such order shall be passed without giving the licensee an opportunity to show cause why such an order should not be passed : Provided further that the Chairman of a committee or its Secretary may, under intimation to the Secretary of the Board, suspend a licence for a period not exceeding 15 days.
- (3) The Secretary of the Board may, after such inquiry as he may consider necessary, refuse a licence to a person who in his opinion-
- (a) is a benamidar for or a partner with any person to whom a licence has been refused, or whose licence is cancelled or suspended under sub-section (2), for the period of such cancellation or suspension;
- (b) is convicted of an offence affecting the said person's integrity as a man of business, within two years of such conviction; or
- (c) is undischarged insolvent:
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