Return of licence.

On the expiry of his licence or on the receipt of an order suspending or cancelling it, the licensee shall return the licence to the competent authority: Provided that such authority may, after such expiration, suspension or cancellation, give such reasonable time as it thinks fit to the owner to enable him to wind up his horticulture nursery: Provided further that such authority will give winding up period of not exceeding one year to the owner to enable him to wind up the nursery: Provided further that in case the licence is cancelled or suspended, the plants shall be destroyed by the competent authority or any other person authorized by him but not below the rank of Horticulture Development Officer. The competent authority shall order the licensee to uproot the rootstock seedlings and the grafted plants or cultivars and on his refusal to do so, shall engage the manual labour or tractor to uproot or plough the field of the licensee.