Chapter VI MISCELLANEOUS

1. (1) An appeal against any order of the prescribed authority refusing to grant or renew a licence or suspending, revoking or cancelling any such licence in respect of a warehouseman shall be made to such authority and within such time as may be prescribed.
2. (2) The decision of such appellate authority on such appeal shall be final.

Where any licence is suspended, revoked or cancelled under this Act, the licensee shall not be entitled to any compensation therefor, nor shall be entitled to refund of any fee paid by him for the licence.

Every contract or agreement which is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder shall, to the extent of such inconsistency, be void.

1. (1) Whoever-
   • (a) acts or holds himself out, as a licensed warehouseman without having obtained a licence under this Act, or
   • (b) knowingly contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions or requirements of this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
2. (2) Where a person committing an offence under sub-section (1) is a company or an association or a body of persons whether incorporated or not, the manager, secretary, agent or other principal officer, managing the affairs of such company, association or body shall be deemed to be guilty of such offence.

The prescribed authority would be entitled to forfeit the security of the warehouseman, in case the warehouseman fails to return the goods deposited within the reasonable time as provided under section 10 and 16 of the Act and the forfeited security may be used in full or part payment of the damages or losses incurred by the depositor on account of such failure of the warehouseman.

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1. (1) The Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
2. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for-
   • (a) the matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed;
   • (b) the form of licence granted to warehouseman;
   • (c) the publication of the grant, suspension, revocation or cancellation of licences to warehousemen and of consolidated lists of warehousemen and licensed warehouses;
   • (d) the charges to be levied by warehousemen for their services;
   • (e) the books, accounts and records to be maintained by warehousemen;
   • (f) the conduct of public auctions for the sale of goods deteriorating or about to deteriorate in licensed warehouses and the manner in which the proceeds of such sales shall be accounted for;
   • (g) the scales of losses and gains of weight or bulk which may be sustained by goods owing to shrinkage or dryage in the one case and owing to absorption of moisture in the other;
   • (h) the disinfection of licensed warehouses and the disinfection of goods stored therein;
     • (i) the circumstances in which any security or bond furnished by a warehouseman may be forfeited, and the manner in which any sum falling due as a result of such forfeiture may be recovered;
   • (j) the efficient conduct generally of the business of warehousemen;
   • (k) the qualifications to be possessed by persons applying for the grant of licences as weighers, samplers or graders; the conditions to be inserted in their licences; the form of the certificates to be issued by them and the grounds for which the licences may be suspended or cancelled;
   • (l) the standard weights, measures and gradations of goods to be used in licensed warehouses;
   • (m) the authority to which and the time within which an appeal under section 29 should be made;
   • (n) the manner of giving notices under this Act.
3. (3) The power to make rules under this section shall be subject to the conditions of previous publication and the rules shall be laid before [***] of the State Legislature as soon as may be after they are made.