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Deleted by section 7 ibid. 121 [The Uttar Pradesh Warehouse Act, 1958] [Section 9-15] [9- (1) When a licence expires or is suspended or cancelled, the warehouseman shall cease to carryon warehousing, except for winding up the affairs of that business within such period as may be prescribed. The warehouseman shall within ninety days of the expiry of the licence or its suspension of cancellation as the case may be, return the licence to the licensing authority. (2) Where a warehouseman does not return the licences required under sub- section (1), the licensing authority may, without prejudice to any other penalty provided by this Act, order the forfeiture of the whole or any part of the security, if any, deposited or furnished by him.]1 Duplicate Licence 10- Where a licence granted to a warehouseman is lost, destroyed, torn, defaced or otherwise becomes illegible, the licensing authority shall, in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, issue a duplicate licence. CHAPTER III DUTIES OF A WAREHOUSEMAN Reasonable care of the goods deposited 11- Every warehouseman shall take such care of the goods deposited with him as a man of ordinary prudence would take of his own goods under similar circumstances and conditions. Precautions against damage of injury to goods 12- (1) Every warehouseman shall keep his warehouse in such conditions, as may be prescribed, in order to prevent loss, damage or injury to the goods deposited in the warehouse. (2) No warehouseman shall accept goods, or deposit which are likely to cause damage to other goods which are, or may be deposited in the warehouse. Preservation of identity of goods 13- Every warehouseman shall keep in his warehouse the goods of one depositor separate from the goods of other depositors and from other goods, of the same depositor for which a separate receipt has been issued in such manner as to permit at all times the identification and easy delivery of goods deposited : Provided that where standardized and graded goods are deposited in a warehouse, the same variety of goods belonging to the same or different depositors may, subject to any contract to the contrary, be pooled together and each depositor shall be entitled only to his portion of the goods according to weight or quantity, as the case may be, as shown in his receipt, having due regard to driage or shrinkage. Warehouseman to allow facilities for the depositor to inspect goods 14- Every warehouseman shall allow during such hours, as may be prescribed, necessary facilities to a depositor or such person, as may be authorized by him, to inspect and satisfy him that his goods are properly cared for. Goods deteriorating in warehouse and their disposal 15- (1) Whenever goods deposited in a warehouse being to deteriorate or are likely to deteriorate from causes beyond the control of the warehouseman, he shall forthwith give notice thereof to the depositor, requiring him to take delivery of the goods immediately after surrendering the receipt duly discharged and paying all charges due to the warehouseman.