Bare ActsThe West Bengal Warehouses Act, 1963

Section 24

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If a warehouse receipt is lost, destroyed, torn or defaced, the warehouseman shall, on application by the depositor and on payment by him of the prescribed fee, issue a duplicate warehouse receipt in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed. Ware. house receipts. Warehouse receipts to be transfer. able by endorse- ment and delivery. Duplicate warehouse receipt. CHAPTER VI. Miscellaneous. Appeals. 25. (1) The State Government shall appoint an authority (elsewhere in this Act referred to as the Appellate Authority) for hearing and deciding— (i) appeals against any order refusing to grant or refusing to renew a license to a warehouseman; The West Bengal Warehouses Ad, 1963. 7 XLI of 1963.] (Chapter VI.-11Liscellaneous.—Sections 26-32.) (ii) appeals against any order cancelling the license of a warehouseman; (iii) any reference under sub-section (4) of section 13; (iv) appeals against any decision of an authority referred to in the proviso to sub-section (2) of section 19. (2) The decision of the Appellate Authority shall be final. (3) The procedure to be followed in such appeals or reference, the fee and the period of limitation therefor, shall be such as may be prescribed.

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