Section 14State of West Bengal Act

Section 14: Disqualification of persons for holding a licence

The Bengal Money-Lenders Act, 1940

Disqualification of persons for holding a licence. -

(1)

A person shall be disqualified for holding a licence-

(a)

if so ordered by a Court under section 20, for the period ordered;

(b)

if he has been convicted of any offence specified in the Schedule to this Act and if such conviction has not been set aside by any Court of appeal or revision under any law for the time being in force.

[State] [The 25. Word substituted for the word 'Provincial' by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.] Government may, at any time, on application in the prescribed form accompanied by the prescribed fee, remove a disqualification referred to in sub-section (1), having regard to the time which has elapsed since the order and the circumstances under which it was made or to the time which has elapsed since the conviction and to the nature of the offence.

Sec 13 — Stay of suit when money-lender does not hold licence

Sec 15 — Proof of conviction or order for disqualification

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