Chapter IV INSPECTION AND GRADING OF GOODS

For the purpose of satisfying itself that the requirements of this Act and the rules made thereunder are duly complied with, the Prescribed Authority may, at any time during business hours, inspect or cause to be inspected, or examine or cause to be examined, any warehouse in respect of which a licence is granted, the machinery or equipment thereof, the goods stored therein, and the account books and records relating thereto.

1. (1) On an application made to it in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, the Prescribed Authority may issue licences to persons possessing the prescribed qualifications, entitling them to act as weighers, samplers and graders of any goods deposited or to be deposited in a warehouse, and to issue certificates as to the weight, bulk, quality or grade of the goods which they have examined.
2. (2) The certificates issued by weighers, samplers and graders as to weight, quality or grade of the goods stored in the warehouse shall, subject to any order in appeal preferred by either of them to the Board of Arbitrators, be binding on the warehouseman and depositor.
3. (3) The Prescribed Authority may appoint a Board of Arbitrators to decide complaints against weighers, samplers and graders or warehouseman relating to weight, quality or grade of the goods stored in a warehouse. The decision of the Board of Arbitrators shall be final and shall not be liable to be questioned in a Court of law.

1. (1) Every licence granted to a weigher, sampler or grader under section 24 shall be valid for the prescribed period and may, on the expiry of such period be renewed, from time to time, for a further period by the Prescribed Authority on an application made in that behalf and on payment of the prescribed fees.

Subject to rules made in this behalf, every licence granted to a weigher, sampler or grader shall for adequate reasons which shall be recorded in writing, be liable to be suspended or revoked by the Prescribed Authority. Before revoking a licence the Prescribed Authority shall communicate to the licensee the grounds on which it is proposed to take action, and shall give him a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against it.

Whenever a licence granted to a weigher, sampler or grader, expires, or is revoked, he shall return it to the Prescribed Authority.

No person who is not licensed under this Chapter shall work as, or hold himself out as, a weigher, sampler or grader.

Where a licence granted to a weigher, sampler or grader is lost, destroyed, torn, defaced or otherwise becomes illegible, the Prescribed Authority shall issue a duplicate licences thereof on an application made in that behalf by the weigher, sampler or grader, as the case may be, and on payment of the prescribed fee.

Every warehouseman shall provide reasonable facilities for weighing, sampling and grading any goods deposited in his warehouse.