Weights And Measures (Amendment) Act (No. 16 of 1979)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Insertion of new section 35B in the principal enactment

3. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 35A, and shall have effect as section 35B, of the principal enactment :

36B. Any price control inspector shall have the power to-

	(a) enter any premises used for the purposes of any trade in any place or area in Sri Lanka (including any area within the administrative limits of any local authority), and check any weighing or measuring which is being or which has been done for the purpose of delivering goods to a purchaser ;

	(b) seize and detain where necessary for the purpose of any prosecution in respect of an offence under section 44B, any goods which have been so delivered in contravention of the said section 44B.".