Legal Metrology Certificate | Legal Metrology license | Solubilis

1
Legal Metrology Certificate
2
Legal metrology is the process of applying to the
legal requirements to the measures and the
measuring instruments. To ensure accuracy
weighments and measurements, legal metrology
certificate is used. Measurements are so much of
our daily works like, we fill our cars by fuel in
volume, and we consume electricity in measures,
buy groceries in Kg like that. This protects the
trade of the traders and helps the consumers.
3
CNG- Compressed Natural Gas. CNG is compressed at
pressure of 200 to 248 bars. CNG is cheaper and
cleaner. LPG- Liquefied Petroleum Gas. It is a
mixture of Propane and Butane. They are liquefied
at 15 degree Celsius. LPG has higher calorific
value.
4
The standards of weights and measures Act of 1976
was replaced by standards of weight and measures
Act 1985. Legal Metrology Certificate providers
say that, in April 1, 2011 the provisions of Act
came into force.
5
The manufactures is described under section 2 (i)
of the Act, is described as the producer of
weight or measure, producing the parts and
weighing by self. The packer is defined as a
person who packs which should be readied for
sale. It is mentioned under regulation 2 (g).
Also a dealer is described in Section 2 (b) of
the Act. The dealer involves in the process of
buying, selling distributing the measures
6
Those importers may be individual or a company.
The repairer is also mentioned in section 2(p) of
the Act. He repairs all the weights and measures.
A person is also included to clean, paint and to
lubricate.
7
Penalties

• Legal Metrology Certificate providers say that
  the offences and penalties are described under
  Chapter V.
• The Section 27 of the Act provides penalty for
  producer of sale of non-standard weight or
  measure that shall be punishable with fine.
  Section 36(1) of the Act, says that if the goods
  are produced with non-standard packages they will
  be imposed with fine. Also they may be
  imprisoned.
• The Section 36(2) says that if any pre-packaged
  goods with error in net quantity they will be
  fined and imprisoned. The imprisonments may be
  for the term of one year.
• The section 38 of the Act says that the
  non-registration by the importer of measure and
  weight. It is a punishable offence with
  imprisonment for a term of six months with fine
  (either of these two or both). The regulation 32
  of the rules imposes penalty on the
  non-registration of the producer of packer or the
  importer.

8
Offences are mentioned in Section 48 of the Act.
The offences which happened before or after the
prosecution of payment of a notified amount are
described under this section
9
(No Transcript)
10
In the year 2018, there came an up heave, when
the prices of the water bottles inside and
outside the malls differ. The water bottles
inside the mall were higher and outside the mall
were lesser. The Union food and consumers
Minister brought an amendment to the Legal
metrology (Packaged commodities) rules 2011.
11
The Minister said that the dual MRPs on
pre-packaged commodity will not be levied on the
customers unless it is said by the law. This came
into force on January 1 2018.
12
The medical equipment such as stent should have
the MRP tag on it. The medical devices which are
declared as drug also brought under the rule.
13
During 2019, legal metrology stood against the
price hike of the milk that was supplied by Goa
dairy and milk brands in Goa. The milk was sold
out in packets. The dairy was planning to set up
the milk price up to Rs.4 per litre. The cow milk
was about to set up to the price Rs.2 per litre
14
It also insists that specifying the price on
e-commerce platforms is also essential. The
Ministry of Consumer affairs has now allowed the
stamping of stickers, online printings with
correct date and the month which will not be
utilised during the COVID-19 outbreak.
15
For further details Contact Address 1A First
Floor, Post Office Road, Krishnaswamy Nagar,
Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore-641045Contact number
91 7810001000legalmetrologycertificate.in