Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The competent authority may suspend or cancel any licence granted or renewed under this Act, if the licensee— (a) has applied to be adjudicated, or has been adjudicated, an insolvent; or (b) has parted, in whole or in part, with his control over the horticultural nursery; or (c) has ceased to conduct or to possess such horticultural nursery; or (d) has, in the opinion of the competent authority, become incompetent to conduct or to possess such horticultural nursery; or (e) has contravened, or has failed to comply with, any of the terms of the licence or any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder; or (f) has refused to surrender or to produce his licence or to produce the registers and other records required to be maintained under this Act or the rules made thereunder to the competent authority or any person authorised by him; or (g) becomes subject to such other disqualifications as may be prescribed. (2) Befdre passing an order under sub-section (1), the competent authority shall intimate to the licensee the grounds on which it is proposed to pass such order and shall give him a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the order proposed to be passed. (3) The competent authority may suspend the licence pending the passing of an order of cancellation of such licence under sub-section (1). (4) A copy of every order passed under sub-section (1) or sub- section (3) shall be communicated to the licensee. Suspension or cancella- tion of licence.