(1) The Administrator may, by notification, appoint a Controller of Legal Metrology for the Union territory of Lakshadweep and as many Additional, Joint, Deputy or Assistant Controllers, Inspectors and other officers and staff as may be necessary for exercising the powers and efficiently discharging the duties conferred or imposed on them by or under fthis Regulation.
Appointment of Controllers, Inspectors and other officers and staff
(2) Every Additional Controller, appointed under sub-section (1), shall exercise such powers, and perform such functions, of the Controller, as the Administrator may, by notification, authorise in this behalf.
(3) The Controller may. by general or special order, defme the local limits within which each Additional Controller or each Inspector shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties, conferred or imposed on him by or under this Regulation.
(4) Subject (to the provisions of this Regulation, every Additional Controller and every Inspector shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of hi3 office under the general superintendence, direction and control of the Controller and shall exercise those powers and discharge those duties in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred or imposed on him directly by or under this Regulation and not by way of authorisation.
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(5) The Controller and every Addliional Controller may .also—
(a) perform all or any of the functions of, and
(b) exercise all or any of the powers conferred by this Regulation or any rule or order made thereunder, on, an Inspector, Power td authorise Inspector to adjust weights or measures.
6. Where the Controller is of opinion that it is necessary so to do, he may, by an order in writing, authorise an Inspector, or other officer not below the rank of an Inspector, to adjust any weight or measure in any wea within the local limits of his jurisdiction.
Controller and officers appointed under this Regulation to be public servants.
7. The Controller and every Additional Controller, and every Inspector and every other person authorised to discharge any duty by or under this ^Regulation shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning;
of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code. 45 of 1860.
Protection of action taken in good faith.
8. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Controller, any Additional Controller, or any Inspector or any other person authorised to discharge any duty by or under this Regulation in respect pf anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Regulation or any rule or order made thereunder.
Prohibition of use of weights and measures other than • standard weights and measures.
CHAPTER III GENERAL PROVISIONS IN RELATION TO STANDARD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES