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[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extra ordinary, part II, section 3, sub-section (i)]

Government of India

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

(Department of Consumer Affairs)

Notification

New Delhi, the 14^thJuly, 2004.

GSR 450 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 83 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976) , the Central Government hereby makes the following rules 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 Measure (Packaged Commodities) Fourth Amendment Rules, 2004.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules,

1977, in rule 6, sub-rule (1), in proviso (C) for item (vii), the shall be substituted, namely:-

“(vii) any package containing bidis”.

(Satwant Reddy)

Additional Secretary

(File No WM 10(15)/99)

Note The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide number 622(E) dated 26^th September 1977 and subsequently amended vide:-

1. GSR 224(E) dated 23.3.2002

2. GSR 253(E) dated 5.4.2002

3. GSR 666(E) dated 25.9.2002