Title : Use of Weights Only or Measures Only in Certain Cases
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) The Central Government may, by rules made in this behalf, direct that in respect of the class of goods or undertakings or users specified therein, no transaction, dealing or contract shall be made or had except by such weight, measure or number as may be specified in the said rules. (2) Any rule made under sub-section (1) shall take effect in such area, from such future date and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified therein. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Manufacturers, Etc., to Maintain Records and Registers
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) Every person who (a) makes, manufactures, sells, distributes or otherwise disposes of any weight or measure or other goods which are sold, delivered or distributed by weight, measure or number, or (b) repairs any weight or measure, to which this part applies, shall maintain such records and registers as may be prescribed and if required so to do by the Director, shall produce such records and registers before the Director or such other officer as the Director may authorise in this behalf, for inspection. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section(l) if the Director is of opinion that having regard to the nature or volume of the business carried on by any maker, manufacturer, dealer or repairer, it is necessary so to do, he may, by order exempt such maker,..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Weight or Measure of the First Category Not to Be Sold or Used in Any State Unless It is Stamped in the Transferor State
State : Central
Year : 1976
No weight or measure of the first category shall be used, sold, purchased, delivered or otherwise transferred in any transferee State unless such weight or measure bears thereon the stamp made with the special seal referred to in sub-section (3) of section 41. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : National Standards
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) For the purpose of deriving the value of the base units, other than the base unit of mass, the Central Government shall cause to be prepared such objects or equipments, or both, as may be necessary for the purpose and shall cause the accuracy of such objects or equipments, or both, to be certified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at such periodical intervals as may be prescribed, and, shall, after such certification, deposit such objects or equipments, or both, in such custody and at such place as that Government may think fit. (2) For the purpose of deriving the value of the supplementary and other units specified under section 12, the Central Government shall cause to be prepared such objects or equipments, or both, as may be necessary for the purpose and..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Contravention of Section 48
State : Central
Year : 1976
Every person who exports any weight or measure or commodity in packaged form which does not conform to the standards of weight or measure established by or under this Act, shall, except where such export has been made with the previous approval of the Central Government, be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, and, for the second or subsequent offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and also with fine. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Vexatious Actions
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) An authorised officer who knows that there are no reasonable grounds for so doing, and yet, (a) searches, or causes to be searched, any house, conveyance or place;or (b) searches any person;or (c) seizes any weight, measure or other movable property, shall, for every such offence, 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. (2) If a local Inspector, as defined in section 40, (a) without any reasonable cause verifies any weight or measure of first category, within the meaning of section 41, (b) without any reasonable cause obliterates any stamp on any such weight or measure, in contravention of the provisions of the first proviso to section 42, he shall, for every such..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Repeal and Savings
State : Central
Year : 1976
(1) The Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956 (89 of 1956), is hereby repealed. (2) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), with respect to repeals, any notification , rule or order made under the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956 (89 of 1956), shall, if in force, at the commencement of this Act, continue to be in force and have effect as if made under the corresponding provision of this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title, Extent and Commencement
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 : 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 : Penalty for Contravention of Section 34
State : Central
Year : 1976
Whoever, in the course of any inter-State trade or commerce, (i) sells, delivers, or causes to be sold or delivered , to the purchaser any quantity or number of any article or thing, less than the quantity or number contracted for or paid for; or (ii) renders any service by weight, measure or number, less than the service contracted for or paid for; or (iii) demands, or causes to be demanded, or receives, or causes to be received, while buying any article or thing, any quantity or number of goods in excess of the quantity or number contracted for or paid for; or (iv) obtains any service in excess of the service contracted for or paid for, shall be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, and, for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section