MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (Department of Consumer Affairs) issued notification dated 2nd November, 2021 to makes the following rules further to amend the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, namely:–
These rules may be called the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Amendment Rules, 2021, and they shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 2022.
In the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules),in
rule 2, in clause (aa), for the words, brackets, letters and figures ―clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986)‖, the words, brackets, letters and figures ―clause (7) of section 2 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (35 of 2019)‖ shall be substituted.
The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide G.S.R. number 202 (E). dated the 7th March, 2011 and last amended vide notification number G.S.R. 629 (E). dated the 23rd June, 2017.
