उपभोक्ता मामले विभाग
[Published in the Gazette of India, Extra-ordinary, Part II section 3 sub-section (i)]
Government of India
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
(Department of Consumer Affairs)
The Gazette of India
Notification
New Delhi, the 5 April, 2002.
GSR 253 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 83 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976) , the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Second Amendment Rules, 2002.
(2) They shall come into force on the expiry of 180 days from the date of their publication in the official Gazette.
2. In the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977, in sub-rule (1) of rule 33, -
(i) after clause (i), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided that the importer shall also declare on the package, the name and address of the manufacturer and month and year of manufacture or packing, if not already given on the package.”;
(ii) the proviso to clause (iii) shall be omitted.
(Santosh Nautiyal)
Additional Secretary to the Govt of India.
(File No WM 10(15)/99)
Note The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide number 622(E) dated 26th September 1977 and subsequently amended vide:-
1. GSR 347 (E) dated 30. 6.1978
2. GSR 59 (E) dated 23. 2.1980
3. GSR 303(E) dated 31. 3.1983
4. GSR 253(E) dated 31. 3.1984
5. GSR 316(E) dated 30. 4.1984
6. GSR 393(E) dated 25. 3.1984
7. GSR 96(E) dated 20. 2.1985
8. GSR 458(E) dated 25. 5.1985
9. GSR 32(E) dated 17. 1.1986
10. GSR 1005(E) dated 8. 8.1986
11. GSR 730(E) dated 25. 8.1987
12. GSR 19(E) dated 8. 1.1988
13. GSR 779(E) dated 11. 7.1988
14. GSR 511(E) dated 25. 5.1990
15. GSR 601(E) dated 26. 6.1990
16. GSR 50(E) dated 17. 1.1992
17. GSR 88(E) dated 6. 2.1992
18. GSR 531(E) dated 15. 5.1992
19. GSR 252(E) dated 2. 3.1993
20. GSR 578(E) dated 26. 8.1993
21. GSR 314(E) dated 12. 3.1994
22. GSR 591(E) dated 20. 7.1994
23. GSR 863(E) dated 14.12.1994
24. GSR 105(E) dated 2. 3.1995
25. GSR 392(E) dated 17. 5.1995
26. GSR 521(E) dated 27. 6.1995
27. GSR 547(E) dated 13. 7.1995
28. GSR 693(E) dated 31.10.1995
29. GSR 784(E) dated 7.12.1995
30. GSR 788(E) dated 8.12.1995
31. GSR 139(E) dated 6. 3.1997
32. GSR 140(E) dated 7. 3.1997
33. GSR 230(E) dated 7. 4.1997
34. GSR 600(E) dated 20.10.1997
35. GSR 60(E) dated 20. 1.1998
36. GSR 178(E) dated 31. 8.1998
37. GSR 246(E) dated 5. 4.1999
38. GSR 530(E) dated 14. 7.1999
39. GSR 594(E) dated 17. 8.1999
40. GSR 631(E) dated 21. 7.2000
41. GSR 149(E) dated 28. 2.2001
42. GSR 402(E) dated 29. 5.2001
43. GSR 869(E) dated 26.11.2001
44. GSR 224(E) dated 23.3.2002
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