Author : V S Warrier
Legal Metrology Act, 2009 is an Act to establish and enforce standards of weights and measures, regulate trade and commerce in weights, measures and other goods which are sold or distributed by weight, measure or number and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Act was enacted in the Sixtieth year of Republic of India, and received the Presidential assent on 13th January 2010.
The Legal Metrology Act, 2009 repeals and replaces both the Standards of Weights and Measures Act of 1976 and the Standards of Weights & Measures (Enforcement) Act of 1985. It amalgamates similar provisions of both the previous acts.