law: 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.