Section 56:
Existing Director, Controller and legal metrology officer not to be affected by the new qualification to be prescribed.
(1) Every Director, Controller and legal metrology officer appointed
immediately before the commencement of the rules made under this Act, shall be deemed to have been
appointed under sub-section (1) of sections 13 and 14, notwithstanding any rule prescribing different
qualifications.
(2) The rules made by a State Government under the Standards of Weights and Measures
(Enforcement) Act, 1985 (54 of 1985) which are in force immediately before the commencement of this
Act shall remain in force until the State Government, makes rules in that behalf.