Amendment Rules for Test Centres Under Legal Metrology Act 2025

The Legal Metrology (Government Approved Test Centre) Amendment Rules, 2025 (hereinafter “Amendment Rules”) update the Legal Metrology (Government Approved Test Centre) Rules, 2013 under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009. They redefine that weights and measures listed in the First Schedule must undergo verification by a recognised test centre or a legal-metrology officer. The recognition process for centres now mandates submission of an application to the Joint Secretary in the Department of Consumer Affairs, and introduces a new inspection step by both Central and State legal-metrology officers. Government-controlled reference-standard laboratories and National Test House labs are explicitly deemed approved centres. Verification certificates must now be issued individually per instrument, and centres may operate within their district, or state if authorised. A revised fee structure is introduced: for example, an application for approval attracts Rs 2 lakh per instrument, payable also at renewal. These changes aim to bolster the reliability and transparency of measurement verification nationwide.