Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Beedt and cigar indusirial premises to be licensed.—Save as otherwise provided in this Act, no place or premises shall, on and after such date as the Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf, be used as a beedi and cigar industrial premises without a licence obtained from the competent authority and except in accordance with the terms and conditions specified therein. 4, Lacences.—(1) Any person who intends to use any beed) and cigar industrial premises shall make an application in writing to the competent authority for a hcence therefor, together with such particulars as may be prescribed. (2) The application shall specify the maximum number of employees proposed to be simultaneously employed at any time in the place or premises and shall be accompanied by a plan of the place or premises prepared in such manner as may be prescribed. : (3) The competent authority shall, in deciding whether to grant or refuse a licence, have regard to the following matters, namely :— (a) the suttability of the place or premises which is proposed to be used for the manufacture of beedies or cigars, (8) the status and previous experience of the applicant: 3/40—5 66 (c) the financial resources of the applicant including the financial capacity to meet the demands arising out of the provisions of the laws for the time being in force relating to welfare of labour, (d) whether the application is made bona fide on behalf of the applicant himself or benamz on behalf of any other person, (e) whether the beedi or cigar manufactured by the applicant will be sold and maiketed by himself or through a proprietor o a registered use: of a trade mark registered under the Tiade and Mci- chandise Marks Act, 1958 (Central Act 43 of 1958), in relation to becdi or cigar or any othe: person; (/) the welfare of labou: in the locality, (g) the interest of the public generally: and (4) such other matters as may be prescribed. (4) The competent authority shall not giant a licence unless it 1s satisfied that the provisions of ths Act and the rules made thereunder have been substantially complied with. (5) (a) A licence granted under this section shall be valid for a financial year and shall be renewed from financial year to financial year. (6) The competent authority shall, in deciding whethe to renew a licence or to refuse a renewal thereof, have regard to the matters specified in sub-section (3). (G) The competent authority may cancel or suspend any licence gianted or renewed under this Act if it appeats to it, after giving the holder thereof an opportunity of being heard, that such licence has been obtained by misrepresentation or fraud or that the licensee has been guilty of an offence under this Act or under any other Act or of any breach of any :ule made under this Act o: of the terms and condi- tions of the licence. (7) The Government may issue to competent authorities such orders and dnections of a general character as the Government may consider necessary in respect of any matter relating to hcences unde this section. (8) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this secon, the compet- ent authority may grant or renew licences under this Act on such terms and conditions as it may determine. Where the competent authouty refuses to giant or renew any licence, it shall do so hy an order com- maoieetee to the applicant, giving the reasons m waiting for such refusal.