Overview

Legal Metrology is vital for the Scientific, Technological and Industrial progress of any country. The establishment of the national standards of weight and measurements and their proper enforcement aim at ensuring accuracy of the measurements and measuring instruments and thus legal metrology strengthens the national economy in a broader sense besides being a potential instrument of consumer protection.

 This registration is mandatory for the Manufacturers, packers and importers. The registration has been established with the aim of protecting consumer rights, ensuring the weighing and measuring the goods and maintaining the security of customers. If any individual is seeking for informative content on legal metrology registration and wants to know its fees, documents required, process and more.

Why

1. To set a standard for weight and measurement.
2. Ensure that the consumers receive quantity of the goods and services they pay for.
3. It prevents the unfair competition and abide traders by the same measurements.
4. In the sectors like Pharmaceuticals, accurate measurements are critical for the patient safety.
5. Harmonization of metrology standard facility by ensuring compatibility and equivalence of the measurements.
6. Justify the metric system logically.
7. It fosters research and development efforts aimed at improving measurements accuracy, efficiency and reliability

Process

1. Application to LM authority, first you have to fill the application with all the required information along with this attach all the required documents. 

2. The zonal officer will check out application and verify all the provided information.

3. Inspection of the premises if required, after the successful application filing.

4. The zonal officer will make the acceptation or rejection, as per Legal Metrology Act.

Documents

1. Incorporation documents like MOA, AOA, COI and PAN
2. GST registration certificate 
3. Directors Aadhar and PAN card
4. Email Id and Contact number of the authorised signatory
5. Premises ownership documents and NOC
6. List of the products
7. Label of the product
8. Product specification 

Fees

The legal Metrology registration fee structure is as follows:-

Time

Approval for the legal metrology registration may take up to 5 to 7 working days from the end of the department after completing the registration process and submission.

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