Assam Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958

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    "title": "Assam Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958",
    "short_title": "Assam Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958",
    "act_number": "(Assam Act No. 19 of 1959)",
    "act_year": 1958,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(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 ;\n(b) \"Controller\" means the Controller of Weights and Measures appointed under section 15 ;\n(c) \"Inspector\" means an Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed under section 15 ;\n(d) \"Mint\" means the mint of the Central Government either in Bombay or in Calcutta ;\n(e) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;\n(f) \"Standard weight or measure\" means any unit of mass or measure referred to in sub-section (1) of section 13 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956 (Central Act I:9 of 1956) and includes any other weight or measure permitted to be used by the Central Government in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 14 of the said Act ;\n(g) \"Reference standards\" means the sets of standard weights and measures supplied to the State Government by the Central Government in pursuance of sub-section (2) of section 15 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956 (Central Act 89 of 1956);\n(h) \"Stamping\" means marking in such manner as to be so far as practicable, indelible and includes casting, engraving, etching and branding;\n(i) \"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 re-verification ;\n(j) \"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 ;\n(k) \"Measuring instrument\" means any measuring instrument other than a weighing instrument and includes any instrument for measuring length, area, volume or capacity.\nChapter II\nStandard Weights and Measures",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Working Standards.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Secondary standards.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Reference standards.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Standard weighing and measuring instruments.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Prohibition of use of weights and measures other than standard weights and measures.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to prescribe the use of weights only, or measures only, in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter III\nVerification and Stamping of Weights and Measures",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Marking of denominations on commercial weights and measures.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Prohibition of sale of unstamped commercial weights and measures.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Prohibition of use of unstamped commercial weights or measures.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power of State Government to exempt.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Prohibition of manufactures, etc., of weights and measures without license.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Marking of weight or measure on sealed containers.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Appointment of Controller, Assistant Controllers and Inspectors.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Verification and stamping by Inspectors.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Power to inspect, etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power of Inspector to adjust weights or measures.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Manufacturers, etc., to maintain records and documents.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Appeals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) from every decision of an Inspector under this Act, to the Assistant Controller, and from every decision of the Assistant Controller to the Controller;\n(b) from every decision of the Controller under this Act, not being a decision made in appeal under clause (a), to the State Government or any authority specially authorised in this behalf by the State Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Levy of fees.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Validity of weights and measures duly stamped.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nPenalties",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Penalty for sale or delivery by weight or measure other than standard weight or measure.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Penalty for sale of unstamped commercial weights and measures.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Penalty for use of unstamped commercial weights and measures.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Penalty for manufacture of weights, etc., without license.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "27. Penalty for use of weight or measure in contravention of section 8.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Penalty for failure to mark weight or measure on sealed containers.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Penalty for fraudulent use of weights, measures, etc.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Penalty for being in possession of false weight or measure, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Penalty for making or selling false weight or measure, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Penalty for giving short weight or measure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Penalty for forging, etc., of weights, measures, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Penalty for neglect or refusal to produce weight or measure, etc ., for inspection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) refuses or neglects to produce for inspection under section 17, any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument or any document or record relating thereto in his possession or on his premises, or\n(b) refuses to permit an Inspector to inspect and verify any such weight, measure, instrument, document or record, or\n(c) obstructs the entry of an Inspector under section 17, or\n(d) otherwise obstructs or hinders an Inspector in the performance of his duties under this Act, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Penalty for breach of duty by Inspector.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Controller, etc., appointed under the Act to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Cognizance of offences, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Stamped weights, etc., to be presumed, to be correct.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Offences by companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Company\" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals ; and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm, includes a partner in the firm,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Delegation of powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Limits of error to be tolerated in weights and measures.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in secondary standards referred to in section 4 ;\n(b) in working standards referred to in section 3 ;\n(c) in commercial weights and measures or in selling articles by weight or measure generally or as regards any trade or class of trades ; and\n(d) weighing and measuring instruments.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Repeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the material of which and the designs and specifications according to which working standards may be made, the agency by which such standards may be prepared, the person by whom or the authority by which and the manner in which such standards may be stamped and authenticated ; the places at which and the custody and manner in which such standards may be kept ;\n(b) the procedure for the verification or re-verification and marking of working standards, the person by whom, the places at which and the intervals at which, they may be marked ;\n(c) the material of which and the designs and specifications according to which secondary standards may be made, the places at which and the custody and manner in which such standards may be kept ;\n(d) the procedure for the verification or re-verification and marking of secondary standards and the manner in which they may be marked ;\n(e) the number of weighing and measuring instruments to be kept, the manner in which they may be verified and stamped and necessary particulars regarding the same ;\n(f) the manner in which commercial weights and measures may be marked by manufacturers ;\n(g) the form and manner in which, and the conditions subject to which licenses may be granted to persons fur manufacture, repair or sale of commercial weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments ;\n(h) the qualifications, functions and duties generally of Assistant Controllers and Inspectors under this Act ;\n(i) verification and stamping of weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments and the period within which they are to be re-verified ;\n(j) inspection of weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments used in transactions for trade or commerce ;\n(k) the seizure, detention and disposal of weights and measures which are not authorised by this Act\n(l) the books, accounts and records relating to weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments to be maintained and the manner in which they may be maintained or produced ;\n(m) the limits of error which may be tolerated in secondary or working standards ;\n(n) the limits of error which may be tolerated in weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments used or intended to be used in transaction for trade or commerce ;\n(o) the limits of error which may be tolerated in selling articles by weights and measures generally or as regards any trade or class of trades ;\n(p) the form and manner in which appeals may be preferred and the procedure for hearing appeals ;\n(q) the fees which may be charged under sections 13 and 21 and the collection and levy of the same ;\n(r) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed ;\n(s) the material, form and specification and manufacture and sale of commercial weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 6th June, 2020 [ass390]",
        "Act Number": "(Assam Act No. 19 of 1959)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1958",
        "Short Title": "Assam Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}