Powers of inspection of Directors and officers

The Director or the Chief Weights and Measures Inspector or any Inspector may at any reasonable time enter any factory, shop, store, warehouse, shed, land, vehicle or premises 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 or goods are offered or exposed for sale and may, (a) search for, or require the person for the time being in charge thereof to produce for inspection, all or any weights and measures and weighing and kept therein; (b) inspect any weight or measure which is found therein or produced for examination, and compare it with a Working Standard of that weight or (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 written law any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument which is found upon comparison or test to be incorrect, or which appears to have been, or likely to be, used in contravention of any provision of this Act or such other written law; (e) inspect and weigh or inspect and measure, any article or goods which are therein kept, or offered or 25 exposed for sale, in order to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with in respect of such article or goods, and seize and detain any article or goods 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; (f) require the production of all books, accounts, or documents relating to goods therein and inspect and copy any of those books, accounts or documents; or (g) take such samples of any goods and articles therein as may reasonably be required by him for the proper performance of his duties.