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Any Electronic Weighing Instrument as Table Top ,Platform model will require a separate model approval if a Printer is in-built in the Indicator box? If the Printer is connected outside the Indicator unit, Will it need a separate model approval? : Subodh Gulavani.
You are changing the construction of the machine. So, a fresh model approval will be required.
Whether a Company dealing in consumer goods and selling its products all over India should send such nominations of a Director to all 36 centres of Legal Metrology?
(b) The Directors of large Company with huge turnover, in ordinary course, do not get involved in day to day compliance matter like Packaged Commodity Rules. It does not sound logical to held a Director responsible when he is not involved in the compliance. Whether nomination of a Sr. Officer, who is employee of the Company instead of a Director would be a valid nomination? What is the prevailing practice amongst large MNC operating in India? : Vasant Gori
Yes, the nomination has to be sent to all state Controllers where your products are sold. However, the nomination is optional. You can maintain the previous system. Anyway, it is not just the nominated director, the company along with any official whose connivance or negligence led to the violation of Rules, will be implicated. We do not see any good in nominating a director.
If a Manufacture appoints their Authorized Service agent/Franchaisee for other states to look after the repair work of their Own Weight & Measure, then, is the franchisee need not to have separate license or not: T C Rajasekar, Chennai
They may need license unless they are acting under your name and seal. As you will need to inform the local Controller in advance, it is better to inform him and wait if he raises any objection
if a depot does not have functional bulk meters, are they within the law in distributing oil to the petrol pumps using the oil tankers as a measurement tool using dip-rod measurement? :Raghav Tomar
There is no solution to your problem in Legal Metrology. You may write to the concerned Oil Company.
Whether a Model Approval and the Manufacturing license is required for the manufacturing and sale of Sphygmomanometer. As per the LM (GATC) Rules, 2011 (effective from 1 Jan 2012) this weights & measures has to be verified & stamped. :Yujin Pasil, Kerala
You will require Model Approval and manufacturing license. GATC or not, such instruments will require verification and stamping right now.
Whether selling of bathroom scales (approved by Weights & Measure department) intended for domestic purposes requires license. If so, under which Rule: Varun Aggarwal.
You will require manufacturing or dealership license for selling bathroom scales. You will also require verification of the scales before you may sell them.
Please refer to section 23(1) of the Act which prohibits selling any weight or measure without license. Violation of this provision is punishable under Section 46. Selling unverified weight or measure is punishable under Section 33. No exemption for weights or measures used for domestic purposes.
What steps may be taken for verification of WM listed under Schedule
VII Heading A of SoWM (General )Rules,1987 viz. mechanical type weighing machines excluded in Legal Metrology (General) Rules, 2011. Is that user of WM are only allowed to use Weighing Scales of Digital Type: Niraj Kumar
All weighing instruments should be verified as Non-automatic Weighing Instruments. They fall into different categories- non-self indicating like platform instrument or equal arm instrument, analog indicating and digital indicating. For details please visit Testing and Sealing NAWI on the left menu.
We have been long planning to import domestic weighing scales, and there is issue about the model approvals and stamping (verification) of such items. give us some insights: Om Gupta
You will need registration as importer and approval of models of the items to be imported. You will also have to get them verified before you sell them. Please go through our Guides.
We would like to apply for the General approved Test Centers at Tamil Nadu:
M.Ravichandran
The Central government has not yet prescribed the kinds of weights and measures, verification of which will be allotted to test centers.
The individual sticker is prohibited for alteration but label is not prohibited for any alteration of discloser as required under Legal Metrology law in India.
Proviso of 6 (3) of The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011 instruct procedure about how to reduce price. It does not direct procedure for any other circumstances like increasing price or same price with other alteration relating to disclosure on package. In the light of above provisions, I think we can use label on pre-printed label for
alteration: Nitesh
Under Rule 4, read with Rule 8(1), labels are principal display panel. Stickers are not labels; they are used to paste on a declaration to alter it, which is not permissible under R 6(3). Note the use of the word, "individual" in the Rule. So, altering a declaration by using a sticker on the MRP, for example, is not permissible.
Rule 18 permits charging higher prices proportional to increase of any tax only. In that case, two advertisements should be published (in case of central tax only) followed by circular to all dealers, Director and Controllers of States. But, use of any sticker is not suggested.
Can you please send Classification of balances based on e value:
Nisham KP
Classification of a balance does not depend on "e" value alone. You have to take into account, the "n" value [maximum capacity/e] and minimum capacity. Consult Table 17 of the LM (General) Rules, Schedule VII, Heading A.
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