Penalty for sale or delivery by weight or measure other than standard weight or measure

Penalties

Penalty for sale or delivery by weight or measure other than standard weight or measure.-Whoever, after the expiry of three months from the commencement of this section, sells or causes to be sold or delivers or causes to be delivered in the course of any transaction for trade, business or commerce any article by any denomination of weight or measure other than that of the standard weight or measure [or whoever after the commencement of the Weights and Measures Enforcement (amendment) Act, 1963, keeps any unit of mass or measure other than the standard weigh+ or measures in any premises where such transactions are usually conducted] shall be punishable, for a first offence with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, and for a second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both.