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Logistics / 3PL Service Agreement

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Stamp duty: This Agreement is a contract for services.
Registration: Not compulsorily registrable.
Witnesses: Not compulsory for an unregistered Agreement, but both Parties should still sign before two adult witnesses who are not parties, so execution is easy to prove if this Agreement is ever produced before an authority or a court, and so the Parties are ready if they choose voluntary registration under Section 18.

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Also called

Third Party Logistics Agreement
3PL Services Agreement
Warehousing and Fulfilment Services Agreement
Logistics Services Agreement
Fulfilment Services Agreement
Contract Logistics Agreement
Warehouse Services Agreement

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A services agreement for a third-party logistics (3PL) provider to warehouse, manage the inventory of, pick and pack, and dispatch or distribute a client's goods from a facility in Punjab or Chandigarh — a brand outsourcing its e-commerce fulfilment to a 3PL warehouse in an Industrial Area, a distributor engaging a logistics company to hold and move stock on its behalf, or a manufacturer using a 3PL's facility for finished-goods storage and last-mile distribution. Fixes the scope of services, the fee structure (storage, handling, value-added services and, if bundled, transportation), a minimum volume commitment if any, service levels and the deductions for missing them, inventory reporting and audit rights, the standard of care the Service Provider owes as a bailee of the Client's goods, a negotiated cap on that liability, insurance, a lien over the goods for unpaid charges, staff and data-protection obligations, and what happens on exit, including help moving the Client's inventory out.

The legal starting point is that this is a contract for SERVICES, not a lease or a licence of the warehouse to the Client — the Client never gets a defined space of its own, exclusive or otherwise; it gets a promise that its goods will be received, stored, handled and moved as this Agreement describes, at a facility the Service Provider itself occupies (whether it owns it, leases it, or licenses it from someone else is the Service Provider's own arrangement and not something this Agreement creates). Because the Service Provider takes physical custody of the Client's goods to do any of that, this Agreement is a contract of bailment within the meaning of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 — the Service Provider is a bailee of the Client's goods and owes the statutory standard of care a bailee owes, which clause 9 states and clause 10 then caps by negotiated agreement, as bailment contracts commonly do. Not for a lease or licence of warehouse space itself, where the client (not the provider) actually occupies and operates the facility and stores its own goods there without handing custody to anyone — use the Warehouse Lease Agreement already in this library, or, for a temperature-controlled facility, the Cold Storage Lease Agreement, neither of which involves a bailment because no custody passes to a landlord or licensor merely by letting space. Not for a facilities-management contract for running the services of a building the client itself occupies, which this library's Facility Management Services Agreement already covers on a similar "services, not tenancy" model. And not for a one-off carriage of goods from one place to another with no ongoing storage relationship, which is a contract of carriage under the Carriers Act, 1865 or the Carriage by Road Act, 2007 rather than a warehousing and fulfilment relationship — though clause 14 flags what happens where this Agreement's own distribution service in substance amounts to carriage as well as storage.

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What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.

Stamp duty

This Agreement is a contract for services. It lets or licenses no part of the Service Provider's facility to the Client, transfers no interest in immovable property, and grants the Client no right of occupation of any kind — clause 3 says so in terms, and that is what keeps this Agreement off the ad valorem lease articles this library's warehouse and cold storage lease templates are stamped under. It is chargeable to stamp duty as an Agreement under Article 5 of Schedule I-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (the residuary entry for an agreement not otherwise provided for) as applicable in Punjab, and under the equivalent Article 5 of the Chandigarh Administration's own stamp schedule in Chandigarh — a fixed duty, not one computed on the value of the goods handled, the fees payable, or the facility's own rent. Neither the Punjab Department of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management's own published stamp duty table (revenue.punjab.gov.in, checked 18 September 2026) nor the Chandigarh Sub-Registrar's own table (revenue.chd.gov.in, checked 18 September 2026) lists a plain Agreement by name or states the Article 5 figure — confirm it before the stamp is purchased, at the Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited e-stamping counter or the office of the Sub-Registrar of the tehsil in which the Facility lies (Punjab), or at the SHCIL counter or the office of the Collector, Union Territory of Chandigarh (Chandigarh). E-stamp through the Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited at shcilestamp.com before execution. A separate performance guarantee or security deposit instrument, if one is taken, is separately dutiable.

Registration

Not compulsorily registrable. Section 17(1)(b) of the Registration Act, 1908 catches an instrument creating, declaring, assigning, limiting or extinguishing an interest in immovable property worth more than Rs 100, and Section 17(1)(d) catches a lease of the kind described there; this Agreement creates no lease and no interest in immovable property (clause 3), so neither paragraph reaches it, however long its term runs or however much stock passes through the Facility under it. Voluntary registration remains open under Section 18 of that Act, at the Parties' option and expense, and does not by itself change the character of this Agreement. If the Parties do register: in Punjab, before the Sub-Registrar of the tehsil in which the Facility lies, via igrpunjab.gov.in; in the Union Territory of Chandigarh, before the Sub-Registrar, 30 Bays Building, Sector 17, via revenue.chd.gov.in.

Notarisation

Not required. Use a notary, if at all, for a supporting paper such as a board resolution or authority letter for whoever signs for a company, LLP or partnership, or for a separate guarantee or security instrument taken alongside this Agreement.

Witnesses

Not compulsory for an unregistered Agreement, but both Parties should still sign before two adult witnesses who are not parties, so execution is easy to prove if this Agreement is ever produced before an authority or a court, and so the Parties are ready if they choose voluntary registration under Section 18. If they do register in the Union Territory of Chandigarh, the first witness must, under paragraph 127 of the Punjab Registration Manual, be known to the registering officer, and both witnesses must be known to each other; Punjab has no equivalent requirement.

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LOGISTICS / 3PL SERVICE AGREEMENT

This Logistics / 3PL Service Agreement (this "Agreement") is made at Ludhiana on 1 April 2026.

BETWEEN

Northline Consumer Products Private Limited, an individual, of Plot No. 19, Industrial Area Phase II, Chandigarh 160002, PAN AAECN2233P, acting through Aditi Malhotra, Director (the "Client");

AND

Doaba Logistics and Fulfilment Private Limited, an individual, of Plot No. 210, Focal Point, Ludhiana 141010, PAN AABCD9988R, acting through Vikramjit Sodhi, Director (the "Service Provider").

The Client and the Service Provider are each a "Party" and together the "Parties".

RECITALS

A. The Service Provider operates, or has the right to operate, a warehousing and logistics facility described in Schedule I (the "Facility"), situated at Plot No. 210, Focal Point, Ludhiana 141010, in the State of Punjab.

B. The Client wishes to engage the Service Provider to warehouse, manage, handle and, where this Agreement so provides, transport and distribute the goods described in Schedule I (the "Goods"), and the Service Provider has agreed to provide the Services described in Schedule I on the terms of this Agreement.

C. The Parties intend this Agreement to be a contract for services, and record in clause 3 that it does not let or license the Facility, or any part of it, to the Client.

NOW THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES as follows.

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 "Effective Date" means 2 April 2026.

1.2 "Services" means the services described in Schedule I, as may be varied by written agreement of the Parties.

1.3 "Fees" means the amounts payable under clause 4 and Schedule II.

1.4 References to a statute are to that statute as amended or re-enacted, and include a statute as extended to the place where the Facility is situated. Headings do not affect interpretation. The singular includes the plural.

2. TERM

2.1 This Agreement takes effect on the Effective Date and continues for an initial term of 24 months, unless ended earlier under clause 16.

2.2 This Agreement renews automatically for successive 12-month periods unless either Party gives written notice of non-renewal at least 90 days before the then-current term ends

3. NO LETTING, NO OCCUPATION

3.1 This Agreement is a contract for services. It does not let, license or otherwise grant the Client occupation, possession or use of the Facility, or any specific or general part of it, and does not create a lease, tenancy, easement or other interest in immovable property in the Client's favour. The Client's rights under this Agreement are rights to have the Services performed in respect of the Goods, not rights in the Facility itself.

3.2 The Service Provider may, at its own discretion, move the Goods within the Facility, or between that Facility and another facility it operates or has the right to use, as reasonably necessary to perform the Services, on notice to the Client where the Goods are moved to a different facility.

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Does the Logistics / 3PL Service Agreement need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

This Agreement is a contract for services.

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Does the Logistics / 3PL Service Agreement need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Not compulsorily registrable.

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