THE GAZETTEOFINDIA: EXTRAORDINARY

[PART II—SEC. 3(i)]

MINISTRY OFCONSUMERAFFAIRS,FOODAND

PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

(Department of Consumer Affairs)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 23rd March, 2002

G.S.R. 224 (E).—In exercise of the powers conferred

by Section 83 of the Standards of Weights and Measures

Act, 1976 (6() of 1976), the Central Government hereby makes

the following rales further to amend the Standards of Weights

and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977,

namely —

(1) These rules may be called the Standards of Weights

and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Amendment Rules,

2002.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of its publi-

cation in the Gazette.

2 In the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged

Commodities) Rules, 1977, in rule 6, sub-rule (1),—

(i) in proviso (A), after item (v) the following shall be

inserted, namely —

"(vi) any package containing bidis or incense

sticks";

(ji) in the proviso (C), after item (vi) the following shall

be inserted, namely:—

"(vii) any package containingbidis or incense sticks

for a period of one year from the date of notification".

[F.No.WM10(15)/99]

SANTOSHNAUTIYAL, Addl. Secy.

Note.—The principal rules were published in the Gazette of

Indkvidenumba622(E)d^tcd26mScrrteraberT 1977 and

subsequently amended vide :—

I. GSR347(E)dated30-6-1978

2 GSR59(E)dated23-2-1980

3. GSR303(E)dated31-3-1983

4. GSR253(E) dated 31-3-1984

5. GSR316(E) dated 30-4-1984

6. GSR393(E)dated25-3-1984

7. GSR96(E)dated20-2-1985

8. GSR458(E)dated25-5-1985

9. GSR32(E)dated 17-1-1986

10 GSR1005(E)datcd8-8-1986

11. GSR730(E)dated25-8-1987

12. GSR19(E)daied8-l-1988

13. GSR779(E) dated 11-7-1988

14. GSR511(E)dated25-5-199O

15 GSR601(E)dated26^-1990

16. GSR50(E)dated 17-1-1992

17. GSR88(E)dated6-2-1992

18. GSR531(E)dated 15-5-1992

19. GSR252(E) dated 2-3-1993

20. GSR578(E)dated26-8-1993

21 GSR314(E)dated 12-3-1994

22. GSR591(E)dated20-7-1994

23. GSR863(E) dated 14-12-1994

24 GSR105(E)dated2-3-1995

25. GSR392(E) dated 17-5-1995

26. GSR521(E)dated27-6-1995

27. GSR547(E)dated 13-7-1995

28. GSR693(E) dated 31-10-1995

29. GSR784(E) dated 7-12-1995

30. GSR788(E) dated 8-12-1995

31. GSR139(E)dated6-3-1997

32. GSR 140(E) dated 7-3-1997

33. GSR230(E) dated7-4-1997

34. GSR600(E)dated20-10-1997

35. GSR60(E)dated20-l-1998

36. GSR178(E)dated31-8-1998

37. GSR246(E) dated 54-1999

38. GSR53O(E) dated 14-7-1999

39. GSR594(E) dated 17-8-1999

40. GSR631(E)datod21-7-2000

41. GSR149(E)dated28-2-2001

42. GSR402(E)dated29-5-2001

43. GSR869(E)datod26-ll-2001.

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