Act's for legal metrology certificate for import applicability

For the following, legal metrology certificate for import provisions are applicable.

1. People who employ any form of measurement or weight in industrial production, protection, or transactions.
2. Anybody who manufactures, sells, wholesales, dealers, repairs, imports, and/or packs items linked to weight, measure, or numbers form LMPC certificate for import.

Important Definitions

1. Dealer: A dealer is anyone who engages in the direct or indirect business of purchasing, selling, supplying, or distributing any weight or measure, whether in exchange for cash, a deferred payment plan, commission, compensation, or other valuable consideration. This definition also includes commission agents, importers, and manufacturers who sell, supply, distribute, or otherwise deliver any weight or measure they manufacture to a third party.
2. Label: A label is any textual, graphic, printed, marked, or stamped material that is attached to or shown on a pre-packaged good from LMPC certificate for import.
3. Regarding any weight or measure, a manufacturer is defined as an individual who:
   • produces measures or weights
   • produces one or more components, purchases additional components of the same weight or measure, and then assembles those components to create what it claims to be the final weight or measure that it produced.
   • does not produce any component of the weight or measure; instead, it assembles components that were made by others and then markets the finished item as having been made by the maker.
   • adds his own mark to any completed weight or measure that has been made or produced by another person, or arranges for it to be done, and then represents the product as having been made or produced by him or herself.
4. A commodity that has been pre-packaged is one that has been put in a package—sealed or not—without the buyer's presence and contains a preset amount of product.
5. A packer is a person or business that prepacks goods in units fit for sale, whether they are being sold at wholesale or retail, whether they are in a bottle, tin, wrapper, or another container.

Weight or Measurement Standard (Chapter II)

According to this Act's any weight or measurement that complies with the standard unit for that weight or measure shall be considered to be the typical weight or measure. This standard complies with Section 7's requirements and is based upon the metric system.

Chapter III outlines the appointment and powers of the Controller, Director, and Legal Metrology Officers

The nomination for the controller along with additional legal metrology certificate for import officers, the declaration of pre-packaged commodities, model approval, licensing, registration for an importer of weights or measure, and the non-importation of non-standard measurements and weights are all covered in this chapter.

1. Manufacturers, etc., are required under Section 17 to keep records and registers: All weight and measure manufacturers, repairers, and dealers are required to keep accurate records and weight and measure registers.
2. Statements on pre-packaged goods [Section 18]:
   • It is against the law to manufacture, package, sell, or import any pre-packaged goods unless they are sold in standard quantities and include all necessary disclosures.
   • When a packaged commodity's retail price is mentioned in advertising, it must also state the net quantity or total number of commodities in the package.
3. Enrollment for weight or measure importers [Section 19]:
   • It is required to register as an import of weight and measure.
   • Each individual must register at least a month in advance of the anticipated import date.
4. Non-standard measurements and weights are prohibited from importation [Section 20]: Any weight or measure that does not meet the weight or measure criteria may be imported, either alone or as a part of or components of any equipment.
5. Model approval [Section 22]: Before producing or importing any kind of weight or measure, the model for this weight or measurement must be approved in advance.
6. Weight and measure manufacturing, maintenance, and sales are prohibited without a license [Section 23]: The Controller of the Department of legal metrology certificate for import must grant licenses to all manufacturers and repairers of weights and measures.