Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
4.Licences.-
(1) Any person who intends to use or allow to
be used any place or premises as industrial premises shall make an application
in writing to the competent authority, in such form and on payment of such fees
as may be prescribed, for a license to use, or allow to be used, such premises
as an industrial premises.
(2) The application shall specify the maximum
number of employees proposed to be employed at any time of the day in the place
or premises and shall be accompanied by a plan of the place or premises
prepared in such manner as may be prescribed.
(3) The competent authority shall, in deciding whether to grant or refuse a
license, have regard to the following matters:--
(a) the suitability of
the place or premises which is proposed to be used for the manufacture of beedi or cigar or both;
(b) the previous
experience of the applicant;
(c) the financial
resources of the applicant including his financial capacity to meet the demands
arising out of the provisions of the laws for the time being in force relating
to welfare of labor;
(d) whether the
application is made bona fide on behalf of the applicant himself or in benami of any other person;
(e) welfare of the
labor in the locality, the interest of the public generally and such other
matters as may be prescribed.
(4) (a) A license granted under this section
shall not be valid beyond the financial year in which it is granted but may be
renewed from financial year to financial year.
(b) An application for
the renewal of a license granted under this Act shall be made at least thirty
days before the expiry of the period thereof, on payment of such fees as may be
prescribed, and where such an application has been made, the license shall be
deemed to continue, notwithstanding the expiry of the period thereof, until the
renewal of the license, or, as the case may be, the rejection of the
application for the renewal thereof.
(c) The competent
authority shall, in deciding whether to renew a license or to refuse a renewal
thereof, have regard to the matters specified in sub-section (3).
(5) The competent authority shall not grant or
renew a license unless it is satisfied that the provisions of this Act and the
rules made thereunder have been substantially
complied with.
(6) The competent authority may, after giving
the holder of a license an opportunity of being heard, cancel or suspend any
license granted or renewed under this Act if it appears to it that such license
has been obtained by misrepresentation of fraud or that the licensee has
contravened or failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Act or the
rules made thereunder or any of the terms or
conditions of the license.
(7) The State Government may issue in writing to a competent authority such
directions of a general character as that Government may consider necessary in
respect of any matter relating to the grant or renewal of licenses under this
section.
(8) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, the competent
authority may grant or renew licenses under this Act on such terms and
conditions as it may determine and where the competent authority refuses to
grant or renew any license, it shall do so by an order communicated to the
applicant, giving the reasons in writing for such refusal.