Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(I) Where any type of ·weight or measure manufactured by a licensed Power of State manufacturer is such that all the weights or measures of that type manufactured by him Government to within the State of Sikkim is intended to be sold, distributed or delivered therein, the make provisions State Government may, by notification, direct that the model of every such type of of Central Act weight or measure shall be submitted for approval in accordance with the provisions of relating to ap- sections 36, 37 and j 0 of the Central Act, and thereupon the provisons of the said sections proval of models 36, 37 and 38 shall become applicable to such model, and references in those sections applicable to to the "Central Government" and the "Central Act" shall be construed as references models of . I I' 'S G t" d "tl· A " . h respective y to t re tate overnmen an ·11S ct . WCIg ts or mea- sures intended to be used ex- clusively wi- thin the State. Act where not to apply to the Armed Forces of the Union. Repeal and Savings. 18 (2) Where the State Government makes a direction under sub-section (1 )in relation to any type of weight or measure, any contravention of the provisions of sections 36, 37 or 38 of the Central Act in relation to that type of weight or measure shalT be an offence punishable under this Act and the punishment provided therefor in the Central Act shall be deemed to be the punishment provided therefore in this Act as if the said provisions relating to punishments were enacted by this Act.