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No, it is not mandatory. The user himself can get the Weights & Measures verified & stamped from the legal metrology officer of concerned District
No, a person cannot use any unverified & unstamped Weights & Measure in any circumstances. He must use weights & Measures verified and stamped from Weights & Measures department.
Registration of importer is done by the Director Legal Metrology, Govt. of India.
The provisions of this Act, in so far as they relates to the verification and stamping of Weights & Measures, shall not apply to any Weights & Measures which is
- Used in any factory exclusively engaged in the manufacture of any arms, or ammunition or both, for the use of the armed forces of the union.
- Used for scientific investigation or for research.
- Manufactured exclusively for export.
The following words or expression of a similar nature shall not be used which create misleading or inadequate impression: ‘Jumbo’, ‘Giant’, ‘full’, ‘family’, ‘huge’, ‘extra’, ‘economy’, ‘large’, ‘colossal’, ‘king’, ‘queen’
Application can be made in the Office of Controller Weights & Measures.
Yes, if the drug is covered under the Drugs (Price control) order.
In the office of controller or the concerned district office
The person can be prosecuted by the Department and a fine of Rs. 10000.00 can be imposed upon the accused.
The complainant can file the complaint at the Head Office of the Department or any of its Zonal/District office either by writing or on telephone. The Department files complaint against the accused parties before the Hon’ble Courts of Metropolitan Magistrate, Karkarduma & Patiala House Courts.
Complaints can be made to the Controller or any district office over telephone or in writing or by email.
In the Office of 1) Controller or 2) Director Vigilance or 3) Principal Secretary cum Commissioner Food & Supplies, K-Block, Vikas Bhawan, New Delhi-110 002.
The Weights & Measures Districts take care of the stamping and verification of Weights & Measures like Petrol Pumps, Weights, Electronic and Mechanical Weighing Machines and also keep a check on the accuracy of Weights & Measures in Delhi
Every Weights & Measures is checked for accuracy and after submitting the prescribed Govt fees, the Weights & Measures stamped by the special seal provided by the District and verification Certificate is issued simultaneously, the request has to be made for the stamping.
The Weights & Measures is organised in the nine districts and the work of verification is looked after district wise. The District is looked after by the Zonal Officer along with Legal Metrology Officer and Manual Assistant. The Govt. fees is deposited district wise and the verification is done in the labs in Nine districts itself and the Verification Certificates are issued from there itself.
The step by step process of verification / stamping of Weighing and measuring instruments used by the commercial establishments is given as under :
In case of new Weights & Measures instruments :
- The manufacturer of the weighing and measuring instruments is responsible for getting initial stamping done in r/o the instruments manufactured by him, before they are sold in the market.
- The manufacturer or his authorized representative brings the weighing and measuring instruments to the concerned zonal / district laboratory of W&M Department on the laboratory days.
- These goods were counted and checked by the manual assistant at the entry of laboratory / district office and a gate pass is issued in r/o these items.
- Then the requisite fees for the stamping / verification is deposited by the manufacturer or his authorized representative at the cash counter.
- After the fees is deposited, the weighing & measuring instruments are tested in the laboratory for their accuracy.
- If these instruments were found to be within their accuracy limits, they were stamped by the concerned Legal Metrology Officer and a verification certificate is issued in r/o those instruments which passes the accuracy test. The stamp of the Legal Metrology Officer shows the ID No. of the LMO, year of stamping and the quarter in which the instrument is stamping (i.e. A, B, C, D). Further, the verification certificate mentions about the date of verification / stamping, next due date, type & class of instrument verified and its maximum permissible error.
- Instruments which fails the accuracy tests were rejected by the Legal Metrology Officer concerned and the manufacturer is asked to get them rectified before they can be stamped.
- Goods were taken out of the zonal/district laboratory only after the gate pass issued is presented by the manufacturer or his representative.
In case of old / used Weights & Measures instruments :
The procedure for verification / stamping of old instruments is the same as that of the new goods except that the old instruments were brought to the zonal / district laboratories by the owner of these instruments or they are brought by the licenced repairer of these instruments after repairing them. In case the goods are brought by the repairers, they should be duly authorized by the owners to get them verified / stamped at the zonal laboratories.
In some cases, if at the request of the user of weight or measure, verification is done at any premises other than the office or camp office of the LMO, an additional fee shall be charged at half the rates as specified in Schedule IX and the user of weights and measures shall pay the expenses incurred by the legal metrology officer for visiting the premises including the cost of transporting and handling the working standard and other equipment, subject to a minimum of rupee one hundred.
Moreover, no additional fees is payable in case of vehicle tanks, dispensing pumps, weigh-bridges, dormant platform machines and such other weight or measure which cannot, and should not be moved from its location and weights & measures stamped in the premises of a manufacturer or stockists of such weight and measures.
If a weight or measure is presented to the legal metrology officer for re-verification after expiry of the validity of the stamp, an additional fee at half the rates specified in Schedule IX shall be payable for every quarter of the year or part thereof.
Section 24 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and Rule 14 & 15 of the Delhi Legal Metrology (Enforcement) Rules, 2011 deals with the verification / stamping of weights or measures.
Yes, it is mandatory to get the verification stamp of this Department on the auto / taxi meters.
No manipulation can be done in the auto / taxi meters, without opening / breakage of seal. The seal / stamp of this Department is affixed on the meter of the auto / taxi and is visible at the back of the meter.
Consumer can check the accuracy of the meter by verifying that the meter downing is Rs. 25/- in case of autorickshaws and Rs. 25/- in Taxis. Further, if the meter shows an increment of Rs. 0.85 per 100 meter in auto rickshaws and Rs. 1.40 per 100 meters in Taxis than the meter can be said to be not manipulated.
Under the provisions of Section 26 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, whoever tempers with or alters in any way any weights or measures with a view to deceiving any person or having reason to believe that any person is likely to be deceived thereby, except where such alteration is made for the correction of any error noticed therein on verification, shall be punished with fine up to Rupees Fifty Thousand and for the second or subsequent offence with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year or with fine or with both.