Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to licence fuel shop at burning grounds :– (1) The Executive Officer may, from time to time, grant licences to persons applying for the same for the sale at burning grounds of the fuel and other articles used for the cremation of dead bodies and in case any such licence is granted shall prescribe a scale of rates for the sale of such articles, and any person not so licensed, who, within three hundred yards of any such burning grounds, sells or offers for sale any such fuel or other articles, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees. (2) The Executive Officer may, on good and sufficient cause, cancel or withdraw any such licence he may think fit, and any person to whom any such licence is granted, who charges for the sale of any such article at any higher rate than the rate fixed for such article in such scale, shall be liable to have his licence cancelled and shall be liable also to a fine not exceeding ten rupees.