(1) The Administrator may, by notification, make rules to give effect to the provisions of this Regulation.
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(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: —
(a) the class of goods, undertakings or users in relation to which no transaction, dealing or contract shall be made or had except by such weight, measure or number,
(b) the places at which, and the custody in which, the following standards shall be kept, namely: —
(i) reference standards;
(ii) secondary standards;
(Hi) working standards;
(c) the person by whom or authority by which and the place at which, the following standards shall be verified, authenticated and stamped, namely: —
(i) secondary standards;
(ii) working standards;
(d) the form in which and the manner in which an application shall be made for the issue or renewal of a licence to carry on business as a maker, manufacturer, repairer or dealer of any weight or measure;
(e) the form in which and the conditions, limitations and restrictions subject to which any licence may be issued and the period of validity of such licence;
(j) the sum to be furnished by a repairer as security by a licensee;
(g) the description of weight or measure which may be sold by a user;
(h) disposal of weights or measures after cancellation of licence and 'the distribution of the proceeds thereof;
(i) the records and the registers relating to weights or measures to be maintained by makers, manufacturers, repairers or dealers;
(j) the period within which weights or measures shall be verified or re-verified;
(k) the 3teps to be taken for verifying any weight or measure which cannot be moved from its location;
(I) the form in which a certificate of verification of any weight or measure shall be granted;
(m) subject to the provisions of section 26, the purposes for which an Inspector may enter any premises;
(ri) the manner of disposal of seized articles which are subject to speedy or natural decay;
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(o) manner of defacement of rejected weights or measures;
(p) the form in which appeals may be preferred and the procedure for the hearing of appeals;
(q) the amount of fees which may be levied and collected for each of the matters specified in section 68;
(r) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed.
(|3) In making any rule under this section, the; Administrator may provide that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
(4) The power to make rules under this section shall be subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication in the Official Gazette.
Power of Administrator to make provisions of Central Act relating to approval of models applicable to models of weights or measures intended to be used exclusively within the Union territory.
70. (I) Where any type of weight or measure manufactured by a licensed manufacturer is such that all the weights or measures of that type manufactured by him within the Union territory of Lakshadweep is intended to be sold, distributed or delivered therein, the Administrator may, by notification, direct that the model of every such type of weight or measure shall be submitted for approval in accordance with the provisions of sections 36, 37 and 38 of the Central Act, and thereupon, the provisions of the said sections 36, 37 and 38 shall become applicable to such model and references in those sections to the "Central Government" and to the "Central Act" shall be construed as references respectively to the "Administrator" and "this Regulation".
(2) Where the Administrator makes a direction under sub-section
(1) in relation to any type of weight or measure, any contravention of the provisions off section 36, 37 or 38 of the Central Act in relation to that type of weight or measure shall be an offence punishable under this Regulation and the punishment provided therefor in the Central Act shall be deemed to be the punishment provided therefor in this Regulation as if the said provisions relating to punishments were enacted by this Regulation.
Regulation where not to apply to the Armed Forces of the Union.
71. The provisions of this Regulation, in so far as they relate to the verification and stamping of weighty or measures used for industrial production or for protection, shall not apply to any factory exclusively engaged in the manufacture of any arm, or ammunition, or both, for the use of the Armed Forces of the Union.
Repeal and saving