Chapter I - REGISTRATION OF EXPORTERS AND IMPORTERS
Section 47 - Persons exporting or importing any weight or measure to get themselves registered
(1) No dealer or manufacturer shall export or import any weight or measure unless he is registered under this section as such exporter or importer, as the case may be.
(2) Every person who intends to commence or continue business as an exporter or importer of any weight or measure shall make, within such time from the commencement of this Act as may be prescribed, an application for the inclusion of his name in the register to be maintained for the purpose.
(3) The application referred to in sub-section (2) shall be made to the Director and every such application shall be made in such form, in such manner and on payment of such fees, not exceeding ten rupees, as may be prescribed.
(4) On receipt of an application referred to in sub-section (2), the Director shall, if he is satisfied after such inquiry as he may think fit, that it is expedient in the public interest so to do, include the name of the applicant in the register referred to in sub-section (2) and issue to the applicant a certificate to the effect that his name has been so included and send a copy of the said certificate to the Controller of Legal Metrology in the State in which such exporter or importer is carrying on his business.
(5) A certificate granted under sub-section (4) shall be valid for the period specified therein and may be renewed, from time to time, for such further period as may be prescribed.
STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1976Chapter II - EXPORT AND IMPORT OF WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND COMMODITIES IN PACKAGED FORM
Section 48 - Conditions under which export of non-standard weights and measures and other goods may be made
(1) Subject to such conditions, limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed, the Central Government may allow the export of any weight or measure which has been .made or manufactured exclusively for export with the previous permission of that Government notwithstanding that such weight or measure does not conform to the standards established by or under this Act.
(2) Where any commodity in packaged form is exported and the person to whom such export is to be made so requires, the exporter may, in addition to specifying the net contents of such package in terms of the standards unit of weight or measure established by or under this Act, also specify the weight or the net contents thereof in terms of such units of weight or measure as may be specified by the person to whom such commodity is to be exported.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, in relation to any goods which are exported,
(a) quotation of any price;
(b) issue of any price list, invoice or cash memo;
(c) indication of the weight or measure or number of net contents of any package on any label, carton or other thing;
(d) expression of any dimension,
may be made in accordance with any other system of weight, measure or numeration, if the person to whom the export is to be made so, requires.
Section 49 - Non-metric weight or measure not to be imported
(1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), no weight or measure, whether singly or as a part or component or any machine or machinery, shall be imported unless it conforms to the standards of weight or measure established by or under this Act.
(2) Where any commodity, machinery or any part or component of any machinery is imported from a country in which the metric system of weight or measure is not in force, or in which such system being in force, such commodity, machinery, part or component of any machinery has not been made or manufactured in accordance with such system, the importer shall, before making such import, make an endeavour to obtain, on such commodity, machinery, part or component, and also on the drawings thereof, the weight or measurement thereof expressed in terms of the standard unit of weight or measure established by or under this Act:
Provided that where any weight or measure has not been expressed in terms of the standard unit of weight or measure established by or under this Act, on any commodity, machinery, part or component or on any drawings thereof the importer shall, within six months from the date of import, get the weight or measure thereof expressed on such commodity, machinery, part or component and on the drawings thereof in terms of the standard unit of weight or measure established by or under this Act.