The Legal Metrology Act, 2009 (‘LMA’) and allied Rules were enacted to safeguard every consumer’s interests. The LMA provides for different registration and licensing requirements to ensure conformity of weight and measure with international standards. One of the essential requirements is to obtain registration in case of import of weight or measure. Notably, an importer of weight or measure may either be engaged in manufacture and trade of weight or measure or use such goods for self-consumption during industrial process.

In this Article, our Associate Partner, Ms. Aasmee Mangla, Senior Research Associate, Mr. Ashutosh Mishra, and Executive, Ms. Sarita Mehra have tried to analyze provisions of the LMA read with allied Rules to analyze if an importer of weight or measure needs to mandatorily obtain registration in cases of self-consumption or not.

Please click on the below link to read our latest article titled ‘Imported weights and measures for self-consumption: An ‘un-registered’ analysis’

NITYA I Article 114 I Imported weights and measures for self consumption An un registered analysis