Bare ActsThe PUNJAB WAREHOUSES ACT, 1957

Section 34

(1)The Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act

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(1)The Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for- (a) the matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed; (b) the form of licence granted to warehouseman; (c) the publication of the grant, suspension, revocation or cancellation of licences to warehousemen and of consolidated lists of warehousemen and licensed warehouses; (d) the charges to be levied by warehousemen for their services; (e) the books, accounts and records to be maintained by warehousemen; Penalty and procedure. Penalty and procedure. (f) the conduct of public auctions for the sale of goods deteriorating or about to deteriorate in licensed warehouses and the manner in which the proceeds of such sales shall be accounted for; (g) the scales of losses and gains of weight or bulk which may 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 warehouses and the disinfection of goods stored therein; (i) the circumstances in which any security or bond furnished by a warehouseman may be forfeited, and 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 warehousemen; (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; the form of the certificates to be issued by them and the grounds for which the licences may be suspended or cancelled; (l) the standard weights, measures and gradations of goods to be used in licensed warehouses; (m) the authority to which and the time within which an appeal under section 29 should be made; (n) the manner of giving notices under this Act. (3) The power to make rules under this section shall be subject to the conditions of previous publication and the rules shall be laid before 1[***] of the State Legislature as soon as may be after they are made. 2[THE SCHEDULE] [See Section 2(c)] GOODS TO WHICH THE ACT APPLIES- Wheat Mung (Whole) Sarson Walnuts Maize Mung Split (Husked) Toria Raw Cashewnuts Gram Mung Split (unhusked) Til (Sesame) Groundnuts (pods & Kernels) Barley Mash Linseed Cotton Senjee Oats Moth (whole) Cotton Seed Metha Rice Moth Split (Husked) Castor Seed Barseen Bajra Flour Masur (Whole) Nigar Seed Chatala Bengali Gram Masur Split (Husked) Sunflower Chari Red Gram Kulth Copra (Ball & Cup) Guwara Jwar Peas Rapeseed Pal Fibres Paddy Beans Taramira Jute Sorghum Arher/Tur (whole) Safflower Seeds Coir & Coir Products Millet Arher/Tur Split (Husked) Linseeds Wool Wheat Flour Dal Mahua Seed Oil Cakes 1 The words "each House" omitted by the Adaptation of Punjab Laws order ,1970.

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