Chapter 1 Chapter 1

Preliminary

1. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Haryana.
3. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act or for different areas or for different classes of undertakings or for different classes of goods.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

1. (a) "commercial weight or measure" means a weight or measure purporting to be a standard weight or measure used in any transaction for trade or commerce;
2. (b) "Controller" means the Controller of Weights and Measures appointed under section 15;
3. (c) "Inspector" means an Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed under section 15;
4. (d) "measuring instrument" means any measuring instrument other than a weighing instrument and includes any instrument for measuring length, area, volume or capacity, distance, time;
5. (e) "Mint" means the mint of the Central Government either in Bombay or in Calcutta;
6. (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
7. (g) "standard weight or measure" means any unit of mass or measure referred to in sub-section

1. (1) of section 13 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956 and includes any other weight or measure permitted to be used by the Central Government in pursuance of sub-section
2. (1) of section 13 of that Act;
   • (h) "reference standards" means the sets of standard weights and measures supplied to the State Government by the Central Government in pursuance of sub-section
3. (2) of section 15 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956;
   • (i) "stamping" means marking in such manner as to be, so far as practicable, indelible, and includes casting, engraving, etching and branding;
   • (j) "verification" with its grammatical variations used with reference to a weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument, includes the process of comparing, checking or testing such weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument and also includes reverification;
   • (k) "weighing instrument" means any instrument for weighing, and includes scales with the weights belonging thereto, scale-beams, balances, spring balances, steel yards and other weighing machines.