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Id., sec. 31(1). A TREATISE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS inspector may dispose of such goods in the prescribed manner. The inspector may further seize and detain any document or other record relating to such weight, measure or article.45 The provisions of section 102 of the Cr PC apply to every such seizure.46 Every false or unverified weight or measure so seized is liable to be forfeited to government.47 However, such unverified weight or measure can be forfeited to the government only if the person from whom weight or measure was seized does not get the same verified and stamped within the time prescribed for this purpose.48 The Act declares void every custom, usage, practice or method which permits a person to demand, receive, or cause to be demanded or received, any quantity of an article, thing or service in excess of or less than the quantity specified by weight, measure or number in any contract or other agreement.49 Such other customs or usages would also cease to be effective, according to which, in relation to any commodity sold by number, any fixed additional number of such commodity is required to be delivered in addition to the number of commodities paid for.50 Where any commodity is sold by heaps, the approximate weight, measure or number of the commodity contained in each heap should be conspicuously disclosed by the seller or his agent either by words or by a written notice placed on each heap.51 Such an announcement may not necessarily be made in the case of a heap where the total price of the commodity contained in such heap does not exceed two rupees.52 Where it is found that the weight, measure or number determined by such weighment, measurement or counting is less than that approximately announced by the seller or his agent and the deficiency is more than five per cent of such announced weight, measure or number, the seller is deemed to have used a false weight or measure.53 V. Offences and Penalties Making, manufacture, sale or letting on hire any weight or measure not in accordance with any established standards can be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend from three months to one year, and for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term of