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Id., sec. 12. 144 A TREATISE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS to prepare the same, the government concerned may cause such standards to be prepared by any organization specified by the central government for that purpose.12 As regards the verification, stamping and custody of secondary or working standards, every secondary standard or working standard should conform to the standards established by or under the Standards Act. The verification of a reference standard should be made at one of the places where reference standards are maintained and that of a working standard, at one of the places where secondary standards are maintained, in each case against the appropriate standards. On such verification the conforming standards should be stamped and a certificate is to be separately issued showing the date on which such weight or measure was stamped. The verification and stamping should be made by the person as has been authorised in this behalf by the Standards Act.13 A secondary standard or working standard cannot be deemed to be so without verification and stamp and cannot be used for the verification of any working standard or, for the verification of any weight or measure. Every verified secondary standard and every verified working standard has to be kept at a place and in custody as prescribed.14 Where by reason of the size or nature of any secondary standard or working standard, it is not desirable or practicable to put a stamp thereon, a certificate may be issued to the effect that such secondary standard or working standard conforms to the established standards. The certificate should be in the prescribed form containing such details as would enable its clear identification.15 II. Registration of Users of Weights and Measures Any person who is not an itinerant vendor, should get himself registered before using any weight or measure in any transaction or for industrial production or for protection.16 Every such person is supposed to make an application for the inclusion of his name in a register referred to as the "Register of Users".17 On receipt of the application, the controller or the person authorised by him has to include the name of such person in that register and issue him. a certificate to that effect.18 Whoever uses any weight or measure without having been registered can be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, and for the second or subsequent