Measurement Units Standards & Services Department
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Measurement Units Standards & Services Department |
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| Home | Verification | Registration | Control of prepack |
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Inspection and raids conducted at district level
Inspection or conduction of raids is the control exercise performed in order to check whether the measurement law and regulations are properly complied with. Raids are conducted by inspectors at district level without notice to traders and very often initiated as a result of complains from the public. When dealing with complains inspectors at reasonable time enter into any factory shop, store, or vehicle for the purpose of investigations. At the end of investigations inspectors report their finding to District Secretary who has the authority to decide whether to prosecute the offenders.
Offences under the law and there section in the act are as follows.
| Section 36 | Sale or expose for sale unstamped weighing or measuring instrument |
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| Section 37 | Use and possession of unstamped weighing and measuring instruments in the relevant year |
| Section 38 | Forgery or counter field of stamp or mark used by inspectors, tamper with weighing and measuring instruments stamped by inspector. |
| Section 39 | Use of false weights or measures |
| Section 40 | Repair of manufacture of any weighing or measuring instrument being registered. |
| Section 41 | refusal to produce weighing or measuring equipment for inspection when requested by an inspector. |
| Section 42 | false, incorrect or untrue declaration of the quantity of goods. |
| Section 43 | Use of weighing or measuring instrument which is not correct. |
| Section 44 | Use of weighing or measuring instrument which is not correct |
| Section 51 | Failure to declare the net content of prepackaged commodities |