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2. The provisions of Rules 4, 6 and 23(1) of the Rules are extracted hereunder for convenient reference:

"Rule 4. Regulation for packing and sale etc., of commodities in packaged form.--On and from the commencement of these rules, no person shall pre-pack, or cause or permit to be pre-packed any commodity for sale, distribution or delivery unless the package in which the commodity is pre-packed bears thereon, or on a label securely affixed thereto, such declarations as are required to be made under these rules.

Explanation.--Generic name in relation to a commodity means the name of the genus of the commodity, for example, in the case of common salt, sodium chloride is the generic name;

(c) the net quantity, in terms of the standard unit of weight or measure, of the commodity contained in the package or where the commodity is packed or sold by number, the number of the commodity contained in the package;

(d) the month and year in which the commodity is manufactured or pre-packed;

 (e)    Omitted by GSR 521(E), dated 27-6-1995.  
 

 (f)    the retail sale price of the package;  
 

 (g)    where the sizes of the commodity contained in the package are relevant, the dimensions of the commodity contained in the package and if the dimensions of the different pieces are different, the dimensions of each such different piece;  
 

 (h)    such other matters as are specified in these rules: Provided that- 
 

 (A)     no declaration as to the month and year in which the commodity is manufactured or pre-packed shall be required to be made on--
  
 

 (i)    any bottle containing liquid milk, liquid beverages containing milk as an ingredient, soft drink, ready-to-serve fruit beverages, or the like, which is returnable by the consumer for being refilled;  
 

 (ii)    any package containing bread and any uncanned package of (a) vegetables, (b) fruits, (c) ice-cream, (d) butter, (e) fish, (f) meat, or (g) any other like commodity;  
 

 (ii-a)     liquid milk in pouches; (iii)    any package containing metallic product;  
 

 (iv)    any cylinder containing liquefied petroleum gas or any other gas;  
 

 (v)    any package containing chemical fertilizer;  
 

 (B)    where any packaging material bearing thereon the month in which any commodity was expected to have been pre-packed is not exhausted during that month, such packaging material may be used for pre-packing the concerned commodity produced or manufactured during the next succeeding month and not thereafter, but the Central Government may, if it is satisfied that such packaging material could not be exhausted during the period aforesaid by reason of any circumstance beyond the control of the manufacturer or packer, as the case may be, extend the time during which such packaging material may be used, and, where any such packaging material is exhausted before the expiry of the month indicated thereon, the packaging material intended to be used during the next succeeding month may be used for pre-packing the concerned commodity;  
 

 (C)     no declaration as to the retail sale price shall be required to be made on- 
 

 (i)     any uncanned package of (a) vegetables, (b) fruits, (c) ice-cream, (d) fish, or (e) meat;  
 

 (ii)    any bottle containing liquid milk, liquid beverages containing milk as an ingredient, which is returnable by the consumer for being refilled;  
 

 (iii)    any bottle containing alcoholic beverages, or spirituous liquor;  
 

 (iv)    any package containing animal feed exceeding 15 kgs. or 15 litres;  
 

 (v)    any package containing a commodity for which controlled price has been fixed by or under any law for the time being in force;  
 

 (vi)    packages containing printing ink. 

 

Provided also that where the revised prices are lower than the price marked on the package, the retail dealer or other person shall not charge any price in excess of the revised price, irrespective of the month in which the commodity was pre-packed.

(5) Nothing in Sub-rule (4) shall apply to a package which is not required, under these rules to indicate the month and the year in which it was pre-packed.

(6) No retail dealer or other person shall obliterate, smudge or alter the (retail sale price), indicated by the manufacturer or the packer, as the case may be, on the package or on the label affixed thereto.