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( l) 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 ; shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may exWnd to one year or with fine which may exte11d to one thousand rupees or with both. (2} Where a person committing an offence under sub-section ( l) is a company or an association or a body of perl!lons, whether incorporated or not, the Manager, Secretary, Agf;lnt or otlier principal officer, managing the affairs of such company, association or body, shall be deemed to be guilty of such offence. B""' * 33. (J) The State Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules to carry out the purposes of this .Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such ru1es may add any article to, or omit any article from the Schedule or provide for- (a) the matters expressly required or allowed by this .Act to be prescribed ; (b) the conditions to be inserted in licences to be granted to warehouseman and the form of such licences; (c) the publication of the gra.nt, suspension or cancellation of licences to warehousemen and of consolidated lists of warehousemen and licensed warehouses ; •For rules sea OriH~a (Jaietw flztr&Ol'<linary dated the 11th Marob, 1958 • .i • • • • • 37 { d) the charges to be levied by warehousemen for their services; (e) the books, accollnts and reoorda to be maintained by wa.rehousema11 ; (fl the conduct of public a11ctions for the. aa.Jo of good.B deteriorating or about to deteriorate in licensed warehouses and the ma.oner in which the proceeds of such sales shall be accounted for ; (g\ the scalea of losses and gains of weight or bulk which ma.y 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 warehouseaand the disinfesta.tion of goods stored .therein ; · (i) the circumstances in which any security or bond furnished by a warehouseman may be forfeited, a.nd 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 wMehousemen ; (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, tho form of the certificates to be issued by them and the grounds for which the licences may be suspended or cancelled ; (!)the standard weights, measures and grado· tioilS of goods to be used in licensed warehouses ; (m) the authority to which and the time wi,t.hin which an appeal under section 29 should ba maid~; (1') the manner of giving notices u11der thisAQt [ 11 Le.w-61 .. -- -----------~--~~~~~~~~ 38 SCHEDULE [See section 2 (e) ] GooM to which the Act applie. Foodgra;ns Oil-seeds Misaellanoona I. Rice l. Groundnut l. Gur