Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Act may be called the Arunachal Pradesh Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1979.

1. (2) It extends to the whole of the Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh.
2. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government of Arunachal Pradesh may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different, (a) provisions of this Act,
   • (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.

2.

Definitions

3. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Additional Controller" includes a Joint Controller, Deputy Controller and Assistant Controller, appointed under section 5 ;

1. (b) "authorised seal or stamp" means a seal or stamp made under, and in accordance with, the provisions of this Act ;
2. (c) "Central Act" means the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 ;
3. (d) "Controller" means the Controller of Legal Metrology appointed by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh under section 5 ;
4. (e) "Counterfeit", in relation to a seal or stamp, means a seal or stamp which is so made as to resemble an authorised seal or stamp as the case may be, intending by that resemblance to practise deception, or knowing it to be likely that deception will thereby be practised. Explanation 1., It is not essential that the resemblance of the counterfeit seal or stamp to the authorised seal or stamp should be exact. Explanation 2., When a person causes a counterfeit seal or stamp to resemble an authorised seal or stamp and the resemblance is such that if a person relies on such seal or stamp, he might be deceived thereby, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the person so causing the seal or stamp to resemble the authorised seal or stamp intended by means of that resemblance to practise deception or knew it to be likely that deception would thereby be practised.
5. (f) "heap" means any unit of commodity for sale where such sale is intended to be made without any weighment or measurement or, where the sale is made by number, without counting the number ;
6. (g) "Inspector" means a person who is appointed as such under section 5 ;
7. (h) "mint" means a mint of the Central Government ;
   • (i) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette ;
8. (j) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;
9. (k) "protection" means the utilisation of any weight or measure, or any reading obtained with the help of any weight or measure, for the purpose of determining whether or not any step is required to be taken to safeguard the well-being of any human being or animal, commodity, vegetation or thing, whether individually or collectively ;
10. (l) "reference standard" means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of the Central Government for the verification of any secondary standard ;
11. (m) "secondary standard" means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of the Central Government or the Government of Arunachal Pradesh for the verification of any working standard ;
12. (n) "standard weight or measure" means a weight, measure or number which conforms to the standards established in relation thereto by or under the Central Act ;
13. (o) "working standard" means the set of standard weight or measure which is made or manufactured by or on behalf of Central Government or the Government of Arunachal Pradesh for the verification of any standard weight or measure, other than a national prototype or national reference or secondary standard.

1. (2) words and expressions used in this Act and not defined but defined in the Central Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.

4. The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any enactment other than this Act and the Central Act or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any enactment other than this Act or the Central Act.