Category: Legal Metrology

The press release has urged larger companies to support and handhold smaller companies to develop quality consciousness by making them realize that quality would help them grow, get better markets and better prices.

These Amendment Rules provide for an extension in the date of Enforcement of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) (Amendment) Rules, 2022. The date of enforcement which was fixed on 1st February, 2023 has now been …

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The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has issued a notification on the declaration of mandatory information on the outer retail package. The notification was issued on 18th January, 2023. It shall now …

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The notification states that the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) (Amendment) Rules 2022 will come into force from 1st February, 2023. It may be recalled that previously, these rules were set to come into force on …

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As per the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Amendment Rules, 2022, the unit sale price in rupees, rounded off to the nearest two decimal place, shall be declared on every pre-packaged commodities.

All licenses issued to manufacturers, repairers, and dealers of weights and measures shall be auto-renewed upon uploading of required documents by the license holder and after payment of requisite fees required for renewal.

The purpose of this SoP is to establish the procedure for processing and disposing application in LM-1, LD-1 and LR-1 for issuance of manufacturer, dealership and repairer license in LM-3, LD-3 and LR-3 respectively under …

Read More "Government of West Bengal notified SOP for issuance of Manufacturers, Dealers and Repairers License under the West Bengal Legal Metrology (Enforcement) Rules, 2011."

Extended due date for commencement of the revised Indian Standards for Ferrosilicon and Ferronickel.

Earlier in case of violations under the Legal Metrology Act, the prosecutions were initiated against the Directors of the companies even for the violation done by any establishment or branch or unit in any establishment …

Read More "Government of India amended the Legal Metrology (General) Rules, 2011 for ease of doing business and reducing the compliance burden for the industries."

To protect and safeguard the interest of consumers, the manufacturers/importers of the weighing & measuring instrument are required to get the approval of model (Section 22) of their weighing & measuring instrument, manufacturing license (Section …

Read More "Centre issues 63 show cause notices to the manufactures/importers of weighing and measuring instruments to seek details of compliance."