Staying compliant with your weights & measures (Legal Metrology)
Once your weighing scales are verified and stamped, the obligation is to keep them accurate and re-verified. A stamp lapses, and any repair voids it — using an unstamped or lapsed instrument in trade is a punishable offence. This is the standing checklist an inspector applies to a shop's scales.
Applies once you hold: Verification & Stamping of Weights and Measures (Legal Metrology) — Maharashtra
Recurring — on a schedule
These come due on a cycle. Tracked, they drive your deadlines and reminders.
Re-verify and re-stamp each instrument before the stamp lapses
A verification stamp is valid for a fixed period (commonly 1 year for weighing instruments). Re-verify with Legal Metrology before it expires — a lapsed stamp is treated the same as no stamp. Confirm the exact cycle for your instrument type.
- If you miss it:
- Fine and possible seizure of the instrument; trading on a lapsed stamp is an offence.
- Keep as evidence:
- Renewed verification/stamping certificate
Standing — always true
What an inspector checks at any time. Keep these in order continuously.
Use only stamped, accurate instruments in trade
Every scale/measure used to buy or sell must carry a current stamp and read accurately. Keep the verification certificate available for inspection and take out-of-order or lapsed instruments out of trade use.
Meet packaged-commodity rules if you pack own-brand goods
If you pack and label your own-brand goods (not just sell others' sealed packets), the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules apply — LMPC registration plus mandatory declarations (net quantity, MRP, packer/importer, date). This is separate from stamping your scale.
On an event
Triggered when something changes (premises, ownership, turnover).
Re-verify after any repair or adjustment
Repairing, adjusting or recalibrating a weighing instrument voids its stamp. Get it re-verified before putting it back into trade use.
Track this on your dashboard
Add what you hold to your wallet and KaamKar computes your personal deadlines, keeps a standing-obligations checklist, and alerts you when the rules change.
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