(1) The Chief Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Regulation.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the toregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: —
(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 wnom 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;
(b) the procedure for the verification and marking of working standards, the persons by whom, the places at which and the intervals at which, they may be marked;
(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;
(d) the procedure for the verification or re-verification and marking of secondary standards and the manner in which they may be marked;
(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;
Power to make rules jg THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II (/) the material, form and specification, and manufacture and sale of commercial weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments;
(g) the manner in which commercial weights and measures may be marked by manufacturers;
(h) the form and manner in which, and the conditions subject to which, licences may be granted to persons for manufacture, repair or sale of commercial weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments;
(i) the qualifications, functions and duties generally of Inspectors under this Regulation;
(j) the verification and stamping of weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments and the period within which they are to be re-verified;
(7c) the inspection of weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments used in transactions for trade or commerce;
(Z) the seizure, detention and disposal of weights and measures which are not authorised by this Regulation;
(m) 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) the limits of error which may be tolerated in secondary or working standards;
(o) the limits of error which may be tolerated in weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments used or intended to be used in transactions for trade or commerce;
(p) the limits of error which may be tolerated in selling articles by weight and measure generally or as regards any trade or class of trades;
(q) the form and manner in which appeals may be preferred against decisions of Inspectors and the procedure for hearing appeals;
(r) the fees which may be charged for the grant of licences under section 13 and for verification, adjustment and stamping of weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments and the collection and levy of the same;
(s) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) In making any rule under this section the Chief Commissioner may provide that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(4) The power to make rules under this section shall be subject to the condition of previous publication in the Official Gazette, RAJENDRA PRASAD, President.
G. R. RAJAGOPAUL, Secy.
SEC. l j THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY 17 / CORRIGENDUM In the Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, dated the 17th January, 1959, for issue "No. 47", read issue "No. 1", and for page numbers 611, 612 and 613, read page numbers 1, 2 and 3.
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