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Packaged Commodities Rules — Compendium

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    AmendmentG.S.R. 202(E)
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    The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011 as notified vide G.S.R. 202(E) dated the 7th March, 2011 (40 pages)
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  1. Demonstration corpus. The rule text on this site is genuine Indian subordinate legislation — the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, made under the Legal Metrology …
    Amended
    G.S.R. 202(E)
  2. This compendium holds the principal rules as notified, and the amendment history that has been applied to them since. It is maintained by the Standards Cell of the Department of St…
    Amended
    G.S.R. 202(E)
  3. How this compendium is arranged
    The rules are laid out as they are drafted: one page per Chapter, with the Schedules following. Rule numbering, sub-rule numbering, provisos and Explanations are reproduced as they…
    Amended
    G.S.R. 202(E)
  4. How this compendium is arranged
    Part Contents Chapter I — Preliminary Short title, commencement and definitions (rules 1 to 2) Chapter II — Packages for retail sale Applicability and declarations (rules 3 to 6) C…
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    G.S.R. 202(E)
  5. Citations are links
    Where the rule text cites another rule, sub-rule or Schedule, that citation is rendered as a link to the provision it names. This is a presentation convention of the compendium, no…
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    G.S.R. 202(E)
  6. Citations are links
    The convention matters when an amendment moves a provision. A definition that shifts from an Explanation into the definitions rule leaves the citing words untouched — what changes …
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    G.S.R. 202(E)
  7. Source of the text
    The principal rules were published vide notification G.S.R. 202(E), dated the 7th March, 2011 , and came into force on the 1st day of April, 2011. The amending notifications applie…
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    G.S.R. 202(E)
  8. Source of the text
    Amendments received by the Department are entered into this compendium as proposals against the consolidated text. A proposal records what the notification actually changes, word f…
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    G.S.R. 202(E)
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  1. G.S.R. 747(E)#4
    G.S.R. 747(E) — commencement of the 2022 Amendment Rules moved to 1 December 2022
    Approved by the Owner post1 page touched
  2. G.S.R. 577(E)#3
    G.S.R. 577(E) — Second Amendment Rules, 2022: QR code declarations for electronic products
    Approved by the Owner post1 page touched
  3. G.S.R. 858(E)#2
    G.S.R. 858(E) — Amendment Rules, 2016: essential commodities prevail over standard quantity and declared price
    Approved by the Owner post1 page touched
  4. G.S.R. 427(E)#1
    G.S.R. 427(E) — Amendment Rules, 2012: promotional and value-based packs, GM food, Second Schedule substituted
    Approved by the Owner post4 pages touched
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  6. G.S.R. 202(E)No proposal
    The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011 as notified vide G.S.R. 202(E) dated the 7th March, 2011 (40 pages)
    40 pages touched