law: Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1985
  20. Suspension and
  
  cancellation of licence.-
  1.  The
  
  Controller may, if he has any reasonable cause to believe that the holder of
  
  any licence issued, renewed or continued under this Act has made any statement
  
  in, or in relation to, any application for the issue, renewal or continuance of
  
  the licence, which is incorrect or false in any material particular or has
  
  contravened any provision of the Standards Act or any State Act or this Act or
  
  any rule or order made there under, suspend such licence, pending the
  
  completion of any inquiry or trial against the holder of such licence:
  Provided that 
  
  no such licence shall be suspended unless the holder thereof has been given a
  
  reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the proposed action:
  Provided
  
  further that where the inquiry or trial referred to in this sub-section is not completed
  
  within a period of three months from the date of suspension of a licence, such
  
  suspension shall, on the expiry of the period aforesaid, stand vacated.
  2.  The
  
  Controller may, if he is satisfied, after making such inquiry as he may think
  
  fit, that the holder of a licence has made a false or incorrect statement of
  
  the nature referred to in sub-section (1), or has contravened any law or order
  
  referred to in that sub- section, cancel such licence:
  Provided that 
  
  no such licence shall be cancelled unless the holder thereof has been given a
  
  reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the proposed action.
  1.  
  2.  
  3.  Every
  
  person whose licence has been suspended shall, immediately after such
  
  suspension, stop functioning as such licensee and shall not resume business as
  
  such licensee until the order of such suspension has been, or stands, vacated.
  4.    Every
  
  licensee whose licence has been suspended or cancelled shall, after such
  
  suspension or cancellation, as the case may be, surrender such licence to the
  
  authority by which such licence was issued.
  5. Every
  
  licensee whose licence has been cancelled shall, within a period of thirty days
  
  from the date of such cancellation, or within such further period, not
  
  exceeding three months from such date, as the Controller may, on sufficient
  
  cause being shown, allow, dispose of the weights or measures which were in his
  
  possession, custody or control on the date of such cancellation, and in the
  
  event of his failure to do so, the Controller or any other officer authorised
  
  by him, in writing, in this behalf, may seize and dispose of the same and
  
  distribute the proceeds thereof in such manner as may be prescribed.