Penalty for manufacture of weight and measure without 1[registration.

Whoever, being required to obtain a 1[registration] under this Act or the rules made thereunder, manufactures, without being in possession of a valid 1[registration], any weight or measure, 2[shall be warned with an improvement notice and for the second offence shall be liable to penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees and for the subsequent offences the fine shall not be less than two lakh rupees but may extend to five lakh rupees].