Chapter IV INSPECTION AND GRADING OF GOODS

The prescribed authority may, at any time during business hours, inspect or examine or cause to be inspected or examined any licensed warehouse, its machinery and equipment, goods deposited therein, and the account books and records relating thereto, for the purpose of satisfying itself that the requirements of this Act and the rules made thereunder are being complied with.

1. (1) The prescribed authority may, on application made in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, issue licences to persons possessing the prescribed qualification entitling them to act as weighers, samplers and graders of any goods deposited or to be deposited in a licensed warehouse and to issue certificates as to the weight, bulk, quality or grade of the goods which they have examined.
2. (2) The prescribed authority may appoint a Board of Arbitrators whose decisions on any complaint against weighers, samplers and classifiers or warehouseman relating to weight, quality or grade of the goods stored in the warehouse shall be final. The certificates issued by weighers, samplers and classifiers as to weight, quality or grade of the goods in the warehouse shall be binding on the warehouseman and the depositor subject to any order in appeal preferred by them to the Board of Arbitrators.
3. (3) No person who is not licensed under this section shall act, or hold himself out, as a weigher, sampler or grader.

1. (1) Every license granted to a weigher, sampler or grader under Section 23 shall be valid for the prescribed period and may, on application and payment of the prescribed fee, be renewed from time to time for the prescribed period by prescribed authority.
2. (2) The prescribed authority may cancel any such licence after communicating to the licensee the grounds on which it is proposed to take action and giving him a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why the proposed action should not be taken.
3. (3) The prescribed authority may suspend any such licence without such notice after recording in writing its reasons therefor.
4. (4) The holder of any such licence shall, on the expiry thereof or the receipt of an order suspending or cancelling it, return the licence to the prescribed authority.

Every warehouseman shall provide facilities for given for weighing, sampling and grading any goods deposited or to be deposited in his warehouse.