State Act

The Assam Adoption of Standard Weights Act, 1955

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Assam Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1959 (Assam Act No. XIX of 1959), as listed in the Assam Legislative Department's list of repealed Acts; it may still apply to matters that began before then.

15. (1) An Inspector may inspect all weights or weighing instruments within the area under his charge, which are used by or are in the possession of any person, or are on any premises for sale or use for trade, and may verify every such weight or weighing instrument with a secondary or working standard or weighing instrument prescribed for the purpose. (2) For the purpose of such inspection, an Inspector may at all reasonable times enter into any place where weights or weighing instruments are sold, used or kept for purposes of trade and inspect such weights or weighing instruments. (3) An Inspector may seize and detain any weight or weighing instrument regarding which an offence under this Act appears to him to have been committed or which appears to him to have been used for the commission of such offence. (4) An Inspector may seize and render incapable of use any defective and unadjustable weight or weighing instrument. On being so rendered incapable of use, the owners are entitled to the return of such weight or weighing instrument, if claimed within two months of the date of seizure, otherwise it shall become the property of the State Government.