The Department of Consumer Affairs has amended the Legal Metrology (General) Rules, 2011, to substantially reduce the requirement of standard weights for the verification of high-capacity weighing instruments by introducing a scientific, repeatability-based verification approach.

 

Under the revised provisions, the mandatory quantity of standard weights required before substitution with constant loads has been reduced from 50 per cent of the maximum capacity to 20 per cent, while maintaining the prescribed standards of verification accuracy and reliability.

 

The Ministry said the amendment is expected to reduce the compliance burden, lower transportation and handling costs, faster verification process and promote Ease of Doing Business. It added that the reform is based on internationally accepted metrological principles.

 

The Department has been undertaking a series of reforms to simplify compliance, reduce regulatory burden, strengthen the verification ecosystem, and promote the use of technology in Legal Metrology.