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 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 qualifications, 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) The certificates issued by weighers, samplers and graders as to weight, bulk, quality or grade of the goods stored in the warehouse shall subject to any decision of the Board of Arbitrators under sub-section (3) and further subject to the provisions of section 24 be binding on the warehouseman and depositor. (3) The prescribed authority may, in the manner prescribed, constitute a Board of Arbitrators to decide in the prescribed manner complaints against weighers, samplers and graders or warehouseman relating to weight, bulk, quality or grade of the goods stored in the warehouses. The decision of the Board of Arbitrators shall be final and shall not be liable to be questioned in a court of law. (4) No person who is not licensed under this section shall act, or hold himself out, as a weigher, sampler or grader of the said goods.

• • (1) Every licence 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 renewal from time to time for the prescribed period by the prescribed authority. (2) The prescribed authority may cancel or suspend 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 against it. (3) 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 reasonable facilities for weighing, sampling and grading any goods deposited in the warehouse.