Bare ActsKerala Warehouses Act, 1960

Section 24

Weighers, samplers and graders to obtain licences

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(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, or graders of any goods, deposited or to be deposited, in a licences warehouse, and to issue certificates as to the weight, bulk, quality or grade of the goods which they have examined. (2) Any certificate so issued shall, subject to the provisions of section 25 and to any order passed on a complaint preferred by either of them to the Board of Arbitrators, be binding on the warehouseman and the depositor, as to the weight, bulk, quality or grade of the goods so certified. (3) Any complaint against weighers, samplers, graders or warehousemen relating to weight, quality or grade of the goods deposited in the warehouse shall be determined by arbitration. (4) No person who is not licensed under this section shall act or hold himself out as a weigher, sampler or grader.

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