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| (1) An Inspector may at any reasonable time enter any factory, shop, store, godown, shed, land, premises or vehicle which is in his division and in which any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument is or is suspected to be kept or used for the purpose of any trade, or any article that is packaged and is kept or is suspected to be kept for the purpose of any trade and may-.
| | (a) search for, or require the person for the time being in charge thereof to produce for inspection, all of any of the weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments kept therein; | | |
| | (b) inspect any weight or measure which is found thereto or produced for examination, and compare it with a tertiary standard of that weight or measure; | | |
| | (c) inspect and test any weighing or measuring instrument which is found therein or produced for examination ; | | |
| | (d) seize and detain for the purpose of a prosecution for an offence under this Act or any other law, any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument it which is found upon comparison or test to be not correct or false, or which appears to the Inspector to have been or be likely to be used in contravention of any provision of this Act; and | | |
| | (e) inspect and weigh, or inspect and measure, any article which is kept therein, offered or exposed for sale in order to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with in respect of such article, and seize and detain any article in respect of which or in relation to which a contravention of any provision of this Act has been or is suspected to have been committed. | | |
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