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Bare Act

The Bombay Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958

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This Act establishes a legal framework to ensure fairness in commercial trade by regulating the weights, measures, and weighing instruments used in transactions. It mandates that all commercial weighing and measuring tools must be verified, stamped, and licensed by government-appointed inspectors to prevent fraud and inaccuracy. The law requires manufacturers and traders to maintain precise records and ensures that packaged goods clearly display their net weight. By standardizing these tools, the Act protects consumers from being cheated by inaccurate scales or deceptive packaging. It applies to traders, manufacturers, and repairers, providing a clear system for inspections, penalties for non-compliance, and a formal process for appealing administrative decisions.

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  1. 9. Marking of denominations on commercial weights and measures
  2. 10. Prohibition of sale of unstamped commercial weights and measures
  3. 11. Prohibition of use of unstamped commercial weights or measures
  4. 12. Power of State Government to exempt
  5. 13. Prohibition of manufacture, etc., of weights and measures without licence
  6. 14. Marking of weights or measure in sealed containers
  7. 14A. Prohibition of quoting price, or expressing quantity, of any article otherwise than in terms of standard weight or measure
  8. 15. Appointment of Controller, Deputy Controllers, Assistant Controllers and Inspectors
  9. 16. Verification and stamping by Inspectors
  10. 17. Power to inspect, etc
  11. 18. Power of Inspector to adjust weights or measures
  12. 19. Manufacturers, etc., to maintain records and documents
  13. 20. Appeals
  14. 21. Levy of fees
  15. 22. Validity of weights and measures duly stamped
  16. 23. Penalty for sale or delivery by weight or measure or for keeping unit of mass or measures other than standard weight or measure
  17. 24. Penalty for sale of unstamped commercial weights and measures
  18. 25. Penalty for use or possession of unstamped commercial weights and measures
  19. 26. Penalty for use of weight or measure in contravention of section
  20. 27. Penalty for manufacture, repair or sale of weights, etc. without licence
  21. 28. Penalty for failure to mark weight or measure on sealed containers
  22. 28A. Penalty for quoting prices or expressing quantities otherwise than in terms of standard weight or measure in contravention of section
  23. 29. Penalty for fraudulent use of weights, measures, etc
  24. 30. Penalty for being in possession of false weight or measure, etc
  25. 31. Penalty for making or selling false weights or measures, etc
  26. 32. Penalty for delivering or receiving any quantity of article less than, or in excess of the quantity, fixed by the weight or measure in contract
  27. 33. Penalty for forging, etc., of weights, measures, etc
  28. 34. Penalty for neglect or refusal to produce weight or measure, etc. for inspection
  29. 35. Penalty for breach of duty by Inspector
  30. 36. Forfeiture
  31. 37. Controller, etc. to be public servants
  32. 38. Protection of action taken in good faith
  33. 38A. Composition of offences
  34. 39. Cognizance of offences, etc
  35. 40. Stamped weight, etc., to be presumed to be correct
  36. 41. Offences by companies
  37. 42. Delegation of powers
  38. 43. Limits of error to be tolerated in weights and measures
  39. 44. Bombay Act XV of 1932 or corresponding laws to cease to apply
  40. 45. Special provision during period for which other weights and measures permitted to be used under section 14 of Act LXXXIX of
  41. 46. Power to make rules
  42. 46A. Act not to apply to weights and measures, etc., used in unit or establishment of Armed Forces of the Union
  43. 47. Repeal of Bom. Ordinance II of 1958 and savings

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