(1) The State Government may, with the permission Verifiesof the Central Government, cause to be prepared at a mint tion as many sets of standard weights and standard measures as models:
it may deem necessary to be called the verification models.
(2) The verification models shall be made of such material and according to such designs and specifications, and shall be stamped in such manner and by such person or authority, as may be prescribed.
(3) The verification models shall be kept at such places, in such custody and in such manner as may be prescribed.
(4) A verification model shall be verified and shall be re-verified at least once in every five years with reference io the corresponding reference standard and shall be stamped with the date of verification or re-verification, as the case may be, by such person or authority as may be prescribed.
The West Bengal Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958.
Reference standards.
[West Ben. Act (Chapter 17 .—Standard Weights and Standard Measures.— Sections 5-7. Chapter In.—Verification and Stamping of Weights and Afeasures.—Sections 8, 9.)
(5) A verification model which is not verified or reverified in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (4> shall. not be used for the purposes of this Act.
0. The reference standards shall be kept at such places, in such custody and in such manner as the State Government may direct.
Prohibition 6. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law of use of or any custom, usage or practice in any area or in respect of weights any class of goods or undertakings where or in respect of and which this. Act has come into force, no unit of mass or measures other than measure, other than the standard weights or standard standard measures, shall be used in any transaction or in any dealing weights or contract for any work to be done or goods to be sold or and delivered. measures.
Power to 7. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, thdrejsculte of the State Government may, by notification in the Officialweights Gazette, direct that in respect of any class of articles specified only, or in the notification all transactions shall be by weight only measures or by measure only. only, in OBS.
tern eases. (2) A notification issued under this section shall take effect in such area, with affect from such date, and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified therein.
CHAPTER III.
Verification and Stamping of Weights and Measures.
Marldng of 8. Every weight or measure manufactured for use in any drasolsona- transaction shall have the correct denomination thereof tine on marked legibly on it in such manner as may be prescribed. weights add meaeuxea Prohibition 9. (I) Subject to the provisions of section 10, no weight of sale, or measure shall be sold or delivered or used in any transacdelivers'' or lion unless it has the denomination thereof marked' on it 1043 Of 1111.
st pod and unless it has been verified or re-verified in accordance weights with the rules made under this Act and stamped with a stamp and of verification in such rower as may be prescribed.
measures or weighing instruments or measuring Matsu.
mente.
(2) No weighing instrument or measuring instrument shall be sold or delivered or used in any transaction unless it has been verified or re-verified in accordance with the rules made under this Act and stamped with a stamp of verification in such manner as may be prescribed.
The West Bengal Standards- of Weights and 5 Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958.
XXIII of 1950.
(Chapter n an 111.—Verificatiod Stamping of Weights and Measnrz—Sections 10-13)
10. Where the size of a weight or measure renders it ?7, of impracticable to have any denomination thereof marked on 'yr et it under the provisions of section 8 or to be stamped under the to exempt.
provisions of section 9, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt such weight or measure from being so marked or stamped.
11. No person shall, without obtaining a licence under Prohibition the provisions of this Act, carry on any trade or business Yeoman, - involving the manufacture, repair or sale of any weight or etc., of measure or any weighing instrument or measuring weights instrument.
end =ensure° without licence.
12. No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, Marking of or have in his possession for sale, any article contained in a weigh or sealed package or container unless such package or container Ze7.0= bears thereon, or on a label securely attached thereto, a contain.
description of the correct net weight or measure of the ere.
article contained therein
Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any article which is not ordinarily sold by weight or measure.