Act Info:Preamble1 - STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1976
Part I
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Section3 - Provisions of this Act to override the provisions of any other law
Part II Chapter I
Section4 - Units of weight or measure to be based on metric system
Section5 - Base unit of length
Section6 - Base unit of mass
Section7 - Base unit of time
Section8 - Base unit of electric current
Section9 - Base unit of thermodynamic temperature
Section10 - Base unit of luminous intensity
Section11 - Base unit of amount of substance
Section12 - Supplementary, derived, special and other units of weight or measuretheir symbols, definitions, etc.
Section13 - Base unit of numeration
Section14 - Standard unit of weight or measure
Chapter II
Section15 - National prototypes
Section16 - National standards
Section17 - National prototype and national standard how to be kept
Section18 - Reference, secondary and working standards
Section19 - Power of Central Government to prescribe physical characteristics, etc., of weights and measures
Chapter III
Section20 - Standard weight or measure
Section21 - Use of non-standard weight or measure prohibited
Section22 - Manufacture of non-standard weight or measure prohibited
Section23 - Prohibition with regard to inscriptions etc
Chapter IV
Section24 - Supply, etc., of reference standards
Section25 - Preparation and custody or secondary or working standards
Section26 - Verification, stamping, etc., of secondary or working standards
Section27 - Secondary or working standard which may be stamped
Part III
Section28 - Appointment of Director and other staff
Section29 - Power of inspection, etc.
Section30 - Forfeiture
Part IV Chapter I
Section31 - Part IV to apply to inter-State trade or commerce only
Chapter II
Section32 - Use of weights only or measures only in certain cases
Section33 - Prohibition of quotations, etc., otherwise than in terms of standard units of weights, measures or numeration
Section34 - Any custom, usage, etc., contrary to standard weight, measure or numeration to be void
Section35 - Manufacturers, etc., to maintain records and registers
Chapter III
Section36 - Approval of models
Section37 - Licence to manufacture weights or measures when to be issued
Section38 - Weight or measure to contain number of the approved model, etc.
Chapter IV
Section39 - Quantities and origin of commodities in packaged form to be declared
Chapter V
Section40 - Definitions
Section41 - Verification and stamping of weights and measures sent from one State to another
Section42 - Weight or measure of the first category to be presumed to be correct throughout the territory of India
Section43 - Weight or measure of the first category not to be sold or used in any State unless it is stamped in the transferor State
Section44 - Weights or measures of the second category received from transferor State to be produced before the local Inspector of the transferee State
Section45 - Procedure when any weight or measure is transferred from a transferee State to another State
Section46 - Manufacturers, etc., who send any weight or measure to any other State to submit return to the Controller
Part V Chapter I
Section47 - Persons exporting or importing any weight or measure to get themselves registered
Chapter II
Section48 - Conditions under which export of non-standard weights and measures and other goods may be made
Section49 - Non-metric weight or measure not to be imported
Part VI
Section50 - Penalty for use of non-standard weights or measures
Section51 - Penalty for contravention of section 18
Section52 - Penalty for contravention of section 22
Section53 - Penalty for contravention of section 23
Section54 - Penalty for contravention of section 29
Section55 - Penalty for contravention of section 32
Section56 - Penalty for contravention of section 33
Section57 - Penalty for contravention of section 34
Section58 - Penalty for contravention of section 35
Section59 - Penalty for contravention of section 36
Section60 - Penalty for manufacture of weights or measures unless approval of model is in force
Section61 - Penalty for contravention of section 38
Section62 - Penalty for sale, etc., of unverified weights or measures in the course of inter-State trade or commerce
Section63 - Penalty for contravention of section 39
Section64 - Penalty for contravention of section 47
Section65 - Penalty for contravention of section 48
Section66 - Penalty for contravention of section 49
Section67 - Penalty where no specific penalty is provided
Section68 - Presumption to be made in certain cases
Section67 - Penalty for personation of officials
Section70 - Penalty for giving false information or false returns
Section71 - Vexatious actions
Section72 - Cognizance of offences, etc.
Section73 - Compounding of offences
Section74 - Offences by companies and power of court to publish name, place of business, etc., of companies convicted
Section75 - Provisions of Indian Penal Code not to apply to any offence punishable under this Act
Part 7
Section76 - Establishment of a training Institute and provisions for training thereat
Section77 - Training at other places
Part 8
Section78 - Survey and statistics
Section79 - Conversion of non-metric weights and measures into standard units of weights or measures
Section80 - Non-metric weight or measure not to be mentioned in any document, etc., or to form the basis of any contract after the commencement of this Act
Section81 - Appeals
Section82 - Levy of fees
Section83 - Power to make rules
Section84 - Continuance of certain weights and measures during transitional period
Section85 - Repeal and savings
Schedule - THE SCHEDULE