(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Government may, by notification in the 4Telangana Gazette, direct that in any specified trade or class of trades no transaction, dealing or contract shall be made or had except by weight only, or except by measure only.
(2) A notification issued under this section shall take effect in such area, with effect from such date, and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified therein.
CHAPTER III.
VERIFICATION AND STAMPING OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
9. Every weight or measure manufactured for use as a commercial weight or measure shall bear the description of the weight or measure which it purports to be stamped legibly on it in such manner as may be prescribed.
10. No commercial weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument shall be sold or delivered unless it has been verified or re-verified and stamped in the prescribed manner.
11. No weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument shall be used in transactions in trade or commerce unless it has been verified or re-verified and stamped in the prescribed manner.
12. Where the size of commercial weight or measure renders it impracticable to have any denomination stamped on it under the provisions of section 9, section 10, or section 11, the Government may, by notification in the 4Telangana Gazette, exempt such weight or measure from being so stamped.
4. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
Power to prescribe the use of weights only, or measures only in certain cases.
Stamping of denomination on commercial weights and measures.
Prohibition of sale of unstamped commercial weights and measures.
Prohibition of use of unstamped commercial weights or measures.
Power of Government to exempt.
[Act No. I of 1959] 7
13. No person shall, in course of trade, manufacture, repair or sell any commercial weight or measure or any weighing or measuring instrument, unless he has obtained in the prescribed manner a licence in this behalf from the Government or any officer, authorised by them.
14. No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, or have in his possession for sale, any article contalned in a sealed package or container unless such package or container bears thereon, or on a label securely attached thereto, a description of the net weight or measure of the article contained therein:
Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to an article sold, offered for sale, exposed for sale or in possession for sale which is not ordinarily sold in transactions for trade or commerce by weight or measure.