Act Info:Preamble1 - STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (ENFORCEMENT) ACT, 1985
Chapter 1
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Act not to apply to inter-State trade or commerce
Section3 - Definitions
Section4 - Provisions of this Act to override the provisions of any other law except the Standards Act
Chapter 2
Section5 - Appointment of Controllers, Inspectors and other officers and staff
Section6 - Power to authorise Inspector to adjust weights or measures
Section7 - Controller and officers appointed under this Act to be public servants
Section8 - Protection of action taken in good faith
Chapter 3
Section9 - Prohibition of use of weights and measures other than standard weights and measures
Section10 - Use of weights only or measures only in certain cases
Section11 - Prohibition of quotations, etc., otherwise than in terms of standard weight or measure
Chapter 4
Section12 - Custody and verification of reference standards
Section13 - Preparation of secondary and working standards
Section14 - Verification, stamping and custody of secondary or working standards
Section15 - Secondary or working standard which may not be stamped
Chapter 5
Section16 - Persons using weights or measures for transactions or industrial production or for protection to get themselves registered
Section17 - Procedure of registration
Section18 - Punishment for non-registration
Chapter 6
Section19 - Prohibition on the manufacture, repair or sale of weights or measures without licence
Section20 - Suspension and cancellation of licence
Section21 - Manufacture of weights or measures
Section22 - Prohibition of sale or use of unstamped weights or measures
Section23 - Manufacturer, etc., to maintain records and registers
Chapter 7
Section24 - Verification and stamping of weights or measures
Section25 - Display of certificate of verification
Section26 - Validity or weights or measures duly stamped
Chapter 8
Section27 - Power to inspect
Section28 - Power of Inspector to require production of weight or measure or records for inspection
Section29 - Power of Inspector to enter premises
Section30 - Power to search
Section31 - Power of Inspector to seize any weight or measure
Section32 - Forfeiture
Chapter 9
Section33 - Provisions of the Standards Act and the rules made thereunder relating to commodities in packaged form to apply to commodities in packaged form sold or distributed within the State
Chapter 10
Section34 - Custom or usage requiring delivery of additional quantities to cease
Section35 - Sale by heaps
Chapter 11
Section36 - Penalty for manufacturing, etc., of non-standard weights or measures
Section37 - Penalty for counter-feiting of seals, etc.
Section38 - Penalty for sale or delivery of commodities, etc., by non-standard weight or measure
Section39 - Penalty for keeping non-standard weights or measures for use and for other contravention
Section40 - Penalty for contravention of section 10
Section41 - Penalty for contravention of section 11
Section42 - Penalty for contravention of section 19
Section43 - Penalty for contravention of section 20
Section44 - Penalty for contravention of section 21
Section45 - Penalty for contravention of section 22
Section46 - Penalty for contravention of section 23
Section47 - Penalty for contravention of section 24
Section48 - Penalty for contravention of section 28
Section49 - Penalty for contravention of section 29
Section50 - Penalty for contravention of sections 30 and 31
Section51 - Penalty for contravention of section 33
Section52 - Penalty for contravention of section 35
Section53 - Penalty for tampering with licence
Section54 - Penalty for selling or delivering rejected weights and measures
Section55 - Penalty for personation of officials
Section56 - Penalty for giving false information or maintaining false records or registers
Section57 - Wilful verification or disclosure in contravention of Law
Section58 - Vexatious search
Section59 - Penalty for contravention not separately provided for
Section60 - Presumption to be made in certain cases
Section61 - When employer to be deemed to have abetted an offence
Section62 - Offences by companies
Section63 - Cognizance of offences
Section64 - Summary trial of certain offences
Section65 - Compounding of offences
Section66 - Provisions of Indian Penal Code not to apply to any offence under this Act
Chapter 12
Section67 - Transfer or transmission of business
Section68 - Licences neither saleable nor transferable
Section69 - Appeals
Section70 - Levy of fees
Section71 - Delegation of powers
Section72 - Power to make rules
Section73 - Power of State Government to make provisions of the Standards Act relating to approval of models applicable to models of weights or measures intended to be used exclusively within the State
Section74 - Act not to apply in certain cases
Section75 - Repeal and savings