Legal
Metrology (General) Rules, 2011.
CHAPTER
V
IMPORT OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
IMPORT OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
15. Registration of
importer
(1) Every manufacturer or dealer of weight or
measure who intends to import any weight or measure shall apply to the
Director, through the Controller of the State in which he carries on such
business, for registration of his name as importer in the form specified in
Tenth Schedule.
(2) Every application received by the Controller
under sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2), as the case may be, shall be forwarded by
him to the Director with a report as to the antecedents and technical
capabilities of the applicant.
(3) Nothing in this rule shall take away or
abridge the right of any person referred to in sub-rule (2) to carry on the
business of importing of any weight or measure until he has been informed by
the Director in writing that he cannot be registered as an importer, and on
receipt of such letter he shall stop forthwith the import of any weight or
measure:
PROVIDED that registration of a person carrying
on, at the commencement of these rules, the business of importing weights or
measures shall not be refused except after giving him a reasonable opportunity
of showing cause against the proposed action.
(4) Every application for the registration of an
importer shall be submitted to the Director, in the manner aforesaid, together
with the fee specified in Twelfth Schedule, at least one month before the date
on which import is proposed to be made.
(5) The registration of a person as an importer
shall remain effective for a period of five years from the date of such
registration.
(6) On the expiry of the period of registration
as an importer, the Director may, on the application of the registered importer
and on payment of the prescribed fee, renew registration for a like period.
(7) The registration or renewal of the
registration of a person as an importer may be suspended or revoked before the
expiry of the period of validity thereof, if the Director is satisfied after an
inquiry, and after giving to the person concerned a reasonable opportunity of
being heard, that any statement made by such person in the application for
registration or renewal of registration was false or incorrect in material
particulars or that such person has contravened any provision of the Act or
rules made there under or any term or condition of such registration.
