Title : Provisions Applicable to Every Part
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) This Act may be called the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different- (a) provisions of this Act1, (b) areas, (c) classes of undertakings, (d) classes of goods, (e) classes of weights and measures, or (f) classes of users of weights and measures, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in such areas, or in respect of such classes of undertakings, goods, weights and measures or users of weights and measures in relation to which this Act has been brought into force: ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Definitions
State : Central
Year : 1976
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "calibration" means all the operations which are necessary for the purpose of determining the values of the errors of a weight or measure and, if necessary, to determine the other metrological properties of such weight or measure, and includes the actual fixing of the positions of the gauge-marks Or scale-marks of a weight or measure or in some cases, of certain principal marks only, in relation to the corresponding values of the quantity to be measured. Explanation. Calibration may also be carried out with a view to permitting the use of a weight or measure as a standard; (b) "commodity in packaged form" means commodity packaged, whether in any bottle, tin, wrapper or otherwise, in units suitable for sale, whether wholesale..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1976
STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1976 STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1976 60 of 1976 8th April, 1976 An Act to establish standards of weights and measures, to regulate inter-state trade or commerce in weights, measures and other goods which are sold or distributed by weight, measure or number, and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto Be It enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows : PART 01: PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO EVERY PART SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint, and..... List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Custody and Verification of Standard Equipments
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) The Central Government shall cause to be prepared, for the purposes of this Act, as many sets of reference standards as it may think necessary and shall supply to each State Government as many sets of reference standards as it may think fit. (2) The Central Government shall keep in its custody, for the purposes of this Act, such number of reference standards as may be necessary. (3) Every reference standard referred to in sub-section (2) shall be kept at such place and in such custody as may be prescribed and no such reference standard shall be deemed to be a reference standard and shall be used as such unless it has been verified and authenticated in accordance with the rules made under this Act. Section 25 - Preparation and custody or secondary or working standards The..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Appointment and Powers of Director and Other Staff
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) The Central Government may, by notification, appoint a Director of Legal Metrology and as many Additional, Joint, Deputy or Assistant Directors and other officers and staff as may be necessary for exercising the powers and efficiently discharging the duties conferred or imposed on them by or under this Act. (2) Every Additional, Joint, Deputy or Assistant Director and other officer, appointed under sub-section (1), shall exercise such powers, and discharge such functions of the Director as the Central Government may, by notification, authorise in this behalf. (3) The Director may, by general or special order, define the local limits within which each Additional, Joint, Deputy or Assistant Director or other officer, appointed under sub-section (1), shall exercise his powers and..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Forfeiture
State : Central
Year : 1976
Every false or unverified weight or measure, and every false package, used in the course of, or in relation to any inter-State trade or commerce and seized under section 29, shall be liable to be forfeited to the Central Government: Provided that such unverified weight or measure shall not be forfeited to Government if the persons from whom such weight or measure was seized gets the same verified and stamped within such time as may be prescribed. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 2006
FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS ACT, 2006 FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS ACT, 2006 34 of 2006 An Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the food safety and standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:- CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the food safety and standards act, 2006. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the..... List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Preliminary
State : Central
Year : 2006
(1) This Act may be called the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates 2may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. ___________________________________ 1. Sections 4 to 10 (both inclusive), Sections 87, 88, 91 and 101 effective from 15.10.2007 vide Notification No. SO1758(E) dated 15.10.2007. "Further added Enforcement date appointed by the Notification No. SO1246(E) dated 28.05.2008 as 28th day of May, 2008 for the sections 3 and 30. ..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Definitions
State : Central
Year : 2006
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "adulterant" means any material which is or could be employed for making the food unsafe or sub-standard or mis-branded or containing extraneous matter; (b) "advertisement" means any audio or visual publicity, representation or pronouncement made by means of any light, sound, smoke, gas, print, electronic media, internet or website and includes through any notice, circular, label, wrapper, invoice or other documents; (c) "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Food Authority; (d) "claim" means any representation which states, suggests or implies that a food has particular qualities relating to its origin, nutritional properties, nature, processing, composition or otherwise; (e) "Commissioner of Food Safety" means..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionState : Central
Year : 1968
INSECTICIDES ACT, 1968 INSECTICIDES ACT, 1968 46 of 1968 2nd September, 1968 An Act to regulate the import, manufacture, sale, transport, distribution and use of insecticides with a view to prevent risk to human beings or animals, and for matters connected therewith Be it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows: SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Insecticides Act, 1968. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3)'lt shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different States2. SECTION 02: APPLICATION OF OTHER LAWS NOT BARRED The provisions of this Act shall be in addi- tion to, and..... List Judgments citing this section