Section 3A. Registration of dealers.

1[3-A. Registration of dealers. —(1) Every dealer shall, within two months from the commencement of the Jammu and Kashmir Namdha Quality Control (Amendment) Act, 1963, or from the commencement of his business, as the case may be, apply to the competent authority to be registered as a dealer. The application shall be made in the prescribed form and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee. (2) A registration once made shall be renewable from year to year on payment of the prescribed annual fee.]