MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION — THE LEGAL METROLOGY ACT, 2009

MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (Department orConsumer Affairs) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 7th March, 2011 G.S.R.10l(E)·-Inexercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) read with clause U) and (q) of sub-section (2) of section 52 of the Legal Metrology Act 2009, (1 of 2010), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:- 1. Short title, and Commencement.- These rules may be called The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules,2011. They shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 2011. 2. Definitions:- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires- (a) "Act" meansthe Legal Metrology Act 2009, (1 of 2010); (b) "dealer" in relation to any commodity in packaged form, means a person who, or a firm which carries on directly or otherwise, the business of buying, selling, supplying or distributing any such commodity whether for cash or for [PART II SEC 3(i)} deferred payment or for commission, remuneration or other valuable consideration, and includes a commissionagent who carries on such businesson behalf of any principal, but does not include a manufacturer who manufactures any commodity which is sold or distributed in a packaged form except where such commodity is sold by such manufacturer to any other person other than a dealer; (c) "lot" means- (i) in the case of packages which have been stored, the total number of such packagesstored; and (il) in the case of packages which are on or at the end of the packing line, the maximum hourly output of packages;' (d) "manufacturer" in relation to any commodity in packaged form, means a ' pcr~on who or a firm which produces, makes or manufactures such commodity a Id includes a person or firm which puts, or causesto be put, any mark on any packagedcommodity, not prod