Section 93 — Agent or canvasser to obtain licence.

93. Agent or canvasser to obtain licence.—(1) No person shall engage himself— 

(i) as an agent or a canvasser, in the sale of tickets for travel by public service vehicles or in 

otherwise soliciting custom for such vehicles, or 

(ii) as an agent in the business of collecting, forwarding or distributing goods carried by goods 

carriages,  

unless he has obtained a licence from such authority and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed 

by the State Government. 

(2) The conditions referred to in sub-section (1) may include all or any of the following matters, 

namely:— 

(a) the period for which a licence may be granted or renewed; 

(b) the fee payable for the issue or renewal of the licence; 

(c) the deposit of security— 

(i) of a sum not exceeding rupees fifty thousand in the case of an agent in the business of 

collecting, forwarding or distributing goods carried by goods carriages; 

(ii) of a sum not exceeding rupees five thousand in the case of any other agent or canvasser, 

and the circumstances under which the security may be forfeited; 

(d) the provisions by the agent of insurance of goods in transit; 

(e) the authority by which and the circumstances under which the licence may be suspended or 

revoked; 

(f) such other conditions as may be prescribed by the State Government. 

(3) It shall be a condition of every licence that no agent or canvasser to whom the licence is granted 

shall advertise in any newspaper, book, list, classified directory or other publication unless there is 

contained in such advertisement appearing in such newspaper, book, list, classified directory or other 

publication the licence number, the date of expiry of licence and the particulars of the authority which 

granted the licence.