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Notification, Gsr 665(General Rules),the 25th September 2002


[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)

                                                                             The Gazette of India

                                                                                     Notification

                                                               New Delhi, the 25th September 2002.

   GSR 666 (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. (1) These rules may be called the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Third Amendment Rules, 2002.

 (2) They shall come into force on the expiry of one hundred and eighty days from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977, (here in after referred to as the ‘said rules’) in rule 6, in sub-rule (1), -

 (i) in clause (d), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:

“ Provided that for packages containing food articles, the provisions of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954 (37 of 1954) and the rules made there under shall apply.”;

 (ii) in proviso (A), clauses (i) to (v) shall be omitted;  

 (iii) in proviso (B), the following shall be inserted, namely:-

 “Provided that the said provision shall not apply to the packages containing food products, where the “Best before or Use before” period is ninety days or less from the date of manufacture or packing.”

 (iv) in proviso (C), clauses (i), (ii),(iv), (v) and (vi) shall be omitted.

 (3) In the said rules, in sub-rule (4) of rule 12, in the second column of Illustration, against item (e), for the existing entries, the following entries shall be substituted, namely:-

“ As provided in the relevant Bureau of Indian Standards specification”.  

                                                                                                                                                                       (Santosh Nautiyal)

                                                                                                                                  Additional Secretary to the Govt of India.

File No WM 10(15)/99)

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

1. GSR 347 (E) dated 30. 6.1978

2. GSR 59 (E) dated 23. 2.1980

3. GSR 303(E) dated 31. 3.1983

4. GSR 253(E) dated 31. 3.1984

5. GSR 316(E) dated 30. 4.1984

6. GSR 393(E) dated 25. 3.1984

7. GSR 96(E) dated 20. 2.1985

8. GSR 458(E) dated 25. 5.1985

9. GSR 32(E) dated 17. 1.1986

10. GSR 1005(E) dated 8. 8.1986

11. GSR 730(E) dated 25. 8.1987

12. GSR 19(E) dated 8. 1.1988

13. GSR 779(E) dated 11. 7.1988

14. GSR 511(E) dated 25. 5.1990

15. GSR 601(E) dated 26. 6.1990

16. GSR 50(E) dated 17. 1.1992

17. GSR 88(E) dated 6. 2.1992

18. GSR 531(E) dated 15. 5.1992

19. GSR 252(E) dated 2. 3.1993

20. GSR 578(E) dated 26. 8.1993

21. GSR 314(E) dated 12. 3.1994

22. GSR 591(E) dated 20. 7.1994

23. GSR 863(E) dated 14.12.1994

24. GSR 105(E) dated 2. 3.1995

25. GSR 392(E) dated 17. 5.1995

26. GSR 521(E) dated 27. 6.1995

27. GSR 547(E) dated 13. 7.1995

28. GSR 693(E) dated 31.10.1995

29. GSR 784(E) dated 7.12.1995

30. GSR 788(E) dated 8.12.1995

31. GSR 139(E) dated 6. 3.1997

32. GSR 140(E) dated 7. 3.1997

33. GSR 230(E) dated 7. 4.1997

34. GSR 600(E) dated 20.10.1997

35. GSR 60(E) dated 20. 1.1998

36. GSR 178(E) dated 31. 8.1998

37. GSR 246(E) dated 5. 4.1999

38. GSR 530(E) dated 14. 7.1999

39. GSR 594(E) dated 17. 8.1999

40. GSR 631(E) dated 21. 7.2000

41. GSR 149(E) dated 28. 2.2001

42. GSR 402(E) dated 29. 5.2001

43. GSR 869(E) dated 26.11.2001

44. GSR 224(E) dated 23.3.2002

45. GSR 253(E) dated 5.4.2002

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