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Section 81, The Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or

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(l) Such licences may be obtained on application to aproper officer at the office of a rural district council, and such officer is hereby authorised and empowered to grant the same upon payment of the fee mentioned in this part and in the Third Schedule. (2) Licences granted under this part may be yearly, halfyearly or quarterly as prescribed in the Third Schedule and every such licence shall bear the date of, and commence on, the day of its being granted, and shall expire in the case of- (a) a yearly licence, on the thirty-first of December in each year; (b) a half-yearly licence, on the thirtieth of June or the thirty-first of December in each year; (c) a quarterly licence, on the thirty-first of March, thirtieth of June, thirtieth of September or thirty-first of December in each year: Provided that a licence may be granted under Part III of the Third Schedule for a single entertainment. (3) Every hawker or pedlar of manufactured goods shall, in addition to his licence, be supplied with a certificate which shall bear the name of the licensee, the number of his licence and the dates of issue and expiration of the same, and he shall be required to carry about such certificate with him and to produce the same when demanded by an inspector of licences appointed by the Rural Area Council, a rural district council or a village committee or any member of the Police Force; and if he shall fail to produce such certificate the wares of such hawker or pedlar shall be detained until he shall either give his full name and address or produce his licence or certificate. Any person giving a false name or address shall, in addition to any penalty which he may incur under this part, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one pound; and it shall be lawful for the rural district council to cause any wares so detained to be sold unless they are claimed and taken away by the owner thereof within seven days after such detention; and all expenses of the rural district council for, or incident to, the detention or selling of any such wares shall be repaid to it by the owner and be recoverable as damages or be deducted from the proceeds of the sale of any such wares. (4) The proper officer of the rural district council shall make Publication of vehicle out and deliver quarterly to the Treasurer of the Rural Area licences. Council a list in duplicate of the names of owners or persons in possession or making use _of vehicles _who have taken out licences in pursuance of the provisiOns of this part, and the number and description of such vehicles, and the Treasurer of the Rural Area Council shall forward one copy of such list in respect of each rural district to the Minister.

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