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The Legal Metrology Act, 2009 was introduced to consolidate and amend the laws relating to weights and measures in India. [3] It aims to establish and enforce standards of weights and measures and regulate trade and commerce in weights, measures, and other goods sold or distributed by weight, measure, or number.
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (abbreviated CGPM from the French: Conférence générale des poids et mesures) [1]: 117 is the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the intergovernmental organization established in 1875 under the terms of the Metre Convention through which member states act together on matters related to measurement ...
The Act was introduced to replace the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956, which was based on the metric system and international units recognized by the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML). The 1976 Act was enacted to keep pace with rapid advances in science and technology worldwide and to adopt the International ...
The Indian Institute of Legal Metrology (IILM) is a statutory body established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976, and is deemed to have been established under section 21 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009.
Under French law, its principal body, the International Conference on Legal Metrology, is accorded diplomatic status. [5] The Convention that set up the OIML listed eight objectives behind its establishment. At the 2011 meeting in Prague of the International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML), the OIML updated its mission to read: [6]
The Weights and Measures Law was first signed into law on March 2, 1799 by President John Adams. In 1905, a meeting of the states was held to address the challenges of regulating weights and measures. As a result, an agreement was made to convene annually to set national standards for voluntary adoption and implementation by the states.
Legal metrology, covering the regulation and statutory requirements for measuring instruments and methods of measurement In each country, a national measurement system (NMS) exists as a network of laboratories, calibration facilities and accreditation bodies which implement and maintain its metrology infrastructure.
The Weights and Measures Act 1972 (Malay: Akta Timbang dan Sukat 1972) is an Act of the Parliament of Malaysia.It was enacted to establish units of measurement and standards of mass and measure based on the International System of Units, to regulate weights and measures and instruments for weighing and measuring and to make provisions for matters connected therewith and ancillary thereto.