September 12, 2026

Section 45 – Legal Metrology Act: Penalty for Manufacture of Weight and Measure Without Registration

The Legal Metrology Act, 2009 — back to Table of Contents

Section 45. Penalty for manufacture of weight and measure without registration.

Whoever, being required to obtain a registration under this Act or the rules made thereunder, manufactures, without being in possession of a valid registration, any weight or measure, shall be warned with an improvement notice and for the second offence shall be liable to penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees and for the subsequent offences the fine shall not be less than two lakh rupees but may extend to five lakh rupees.