State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH ELECTRIC WIRE AND TRANSFORMERS PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THEFT) ACT, 1976

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Uttarakhand Repealing Act, 2023 (Uttarakhand Act 27 of 2023), s.2 and Schedule item 212; it may still apply to matters that began before then.

3. (1) No person shall carry on the business of purchase or sale of aluminium or copper or store it for carrying on such business except under a licence granted by the Licensing Authority of the district in which he ordinarily resides or carries on business. (2) The procedure for grant of such licence, its period of validity, for its suspension or cancellation, for appeals against refusal, suspension or cancellation of licence, the fees in respect thereof, the register and accounts to be maintained by the licensee, and the returns to be furnished by him, shall be as may be prescribed. (3) Where at any time any person has in his stock aluminium or copper in any quantity exceeding the quantity prescribed, he shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to have stored it for carrying on the business of purchase or sale of such aluminium or copper.