The Sikkim Weight And Measures Act 1980
Preamble
SIKKIM GOVERNMENT EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY GAZETTE No. 34 Gangtok, Friday, April 11, 1980 LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION No. 4/LL/80. e Dated Gangtok, the 5th April, 1980. The following Act of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly having received the assent of the Governor on the 5th day of April, 1980, is hereby published for general information. SIKKIM ACT NO. 4 OF 1980 THE SIKKIM WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1980. AN ACT to provide for the enforcement of the standards of weights and measures established by or under the Central Act and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Sikkim in the Thirty-first year of the Republic of India as follows :--- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY I. (1) This Act may be called the Sikkim Weights and Measures Act, 1980, Short title, ex- It extends to the whole of the State of Sikkim. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different- (a) provisions of this Act, (b) areas, (c) classes of undertakings, (d) classes of goods, (e) classes of weights and measures, or (f) classes of users of weights and measures, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as reference to the coming into force of that provision in such areas, or in respect of such classes of undertakings, goods , weights and measures or users of weights and measures in relation to which this Act has been brought into force. tent and com- mencement. Act not to ap- ply to inter - State trade or commerce. Definitions.
Sections
Type to filter. 57 sections.
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