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Id., sec. 28 and 48. 152 A TREATISE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS Obstructing the entry of an inspector, or any authorised person into any premises for the inspection and verification of any weight or measure or any document or other record or the net contents of any packaged commodity or for any other prescribed purpose is also punishable under the Act. The prescribed punishment in this respect is imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and for the second and subsequent offence, imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years.75 Similarly, preventing the controller or any authorised officer from searching any premises or preventing an inspector from making any seizure of any weight, measure, packaged commodity, goods, document, record or label, is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, and for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and also with fine.76 Manufacture, distribution, packaging or sale etc. of any commodity in packaged form without conforming to the standards established for these purposes can be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, and for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and also with fine.77 Manufacture, packing, distribution or sale of any commodity in packaged form, knowing or having reason to believe that it is lesser in weight, measure or number than that stated on the package or label is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to three thousand rupees, or with both. Any such second or subsequent offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and also with fine.78 In determining whether the quantity contained in a package is lesser than the quantity declared on the package or label, the maximum permissible error specified under the Standards Act in relation to the respective commodity has to be taken into account.79 Selling any commodity by heaps without complying with the requirements prescribed in this regard is punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees and for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.80 Penalty for tampering with licence is fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or imprisonment which may extend to one year, or with both.81 Selling or delivering rejected weights and measures is punishable