Title : Penalty for Contravention of Section 22
State : Central
Year : 1976
Except where any weight or measure is made or manufactured, with the permission of the Central Government, exclusively for export, every person who makes or manufactures any weight or measure which does not conform to the standards of weight or measure established by or under this Act, shall, where such offence is not punishable under any other law relating to weights and measures for the time being in force, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both, and, for the second or subsequent offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and also with fine. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Contravention of Section 23
State : Central
Year : 1976
Except where any weight or measure is made or manufactured, with the permission of the Central Government, exclusively for export, every person who makes or manufactures any weight or measure which bears thereon any inscription of weight, measure or number which does not conform to the standards of weight or measure or numeration established by or under this Act, shall, where such offence is not punishable under any other law relating to weights and measures for the time being in force, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both, and, for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and also with fine. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Manufacture of Weights or Measures Unless Approval of Model is in Force
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) Whoever makes or. manufactures any weight or measure which is, or is intended to be, sold, distributed, delivered or otherwise transferred in the course of inter-State trade or commerce, shall, unless a certificate of approval of the model of such weight or measure granted under section 36 is in force, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine, and, for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and also with fine. (2) Whoever, without any reasonable excuse, manufactures any weight or measure in accordance with an approved model with any material other than the material approved or recommended by the prescribed authority, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Continuance of Certain Weights and Measures During Transitional Period
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) Notwithstanding that this Act has come into force in respect of any area or class of goods or undertakings or class of weights and measures or users of weights and measures in the State of Sikkim, the Central Government may, by notification, permit the continuance of the use, after such commencement, in respect of that area or class of goods or undertakings, or for classes of users of weights and measures, of such weights and measures, in addition to the standard weights or measures, and for such period, not exceeding five years, as may be specified in the notification. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to empower the Central Government to issue any notification in respect of any weight or measure which was not in use in the State of Sikkim immediately before the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Units of Weight or Measure to Be Based on Metric System
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) Every unit of weight or measure shall be based on the units of the metric system. (2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), (a) the international system of units as recommended by the General Conference on Weights and Measures, and (b) such additional units as may be recommended by the International Organisation of Legal Metrology, shall be the units of the metric system. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : National Prototypes
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) For the purpose of deriving the value of the kilogram, the Central Government shall cause to be prepared a national prototype of the kilogram and shall cause its accuracy to be certified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in terms of the international prototype of the kilogram and shall deposit the same in such custody and at such place as that Government may think fit. (2) For the purpose of deriving the value of the metre, the Central Government may cause to be prepared a national prototype of the metre and, where such prototype is caused to be made, shall also cause its accuracy to be certified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and deposit the same in such custody and at such place as that Government may think fit. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Reference, Secondary and Working Standards
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) Every (a) reference standard, (b) secondary standard, and (c) working standard, shall conform to the standards established by or under this Act and be verified and authenticated at such periodical intervals and in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) Every reference standard, every secondary standard and every working standard shall be kept in such manner and under such conditions as may be prescribed. 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 sectionTitle : Verification and Stamping of Weights and Measures Sent from One State to Another
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) Where any weight or measure, sent from a transferor State for delivery, sale or use in a transferee State, is such that, (a) it is not required to be dismantled before its despatch to the transferee State and is not likely to lose its accuracy by reason of such despatch, it shall be known, for the purposes of this Chapter, as a weight or measure of the first category; (b) it is required to be dismantled before its despatch to the transferee State and reassembled and installed for use in the transferee State, it shall be known, for the purposes of this Chapter, as a weight or measure of the second category. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Central Government may specify, by rules made in this behalf, the classes of weights or measures which would fall in..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Survey and Statistics
State : Central
Year : 1976
The Central Government shall make, or cause to be made, such surveys and collect, or cause to be collected , such statistics as it may consider necessary with a view to ascertaining the extent to which any standard of weight, measure or numeration established by or under this Act has been implemented in any area or in relation to any class of undertakings, users of goods and it shall be the duty of every person using weight or measure or making any numeration to render such assistance as the person making such survey or collecting such statistics may require. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section