Short title, extent and commencement

Preliminary

Short title, extent and commencement.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1978.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
3. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Government 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,
   • (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 class of undertakings, goods, weights and measures, or users of weights and measures, as the case may be, in relation to which it has been brought into force.