Section 13 — Appointment of Director, legal metrology officers and other employees.

13. Appointment of Director, legal metrology officers and other employees.—(1) The Central 

Government may, by notification, appoint a Director of legal metrology, Additional Director, Joint 

Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Director and other employees for exercising the powers and 

discharging the duties conferred or imposed on them by or under this Act in relation to inter-State trade 

and commerce. 

(2) The qualifications of the Director and legal metrology officers appointed under sub-section (1) 

shall be such as may be prescribed. 

(3) The Director and every legal metrology officer, appointed under sub-section (1), shall exercise 

such powers and discharge such functions in respect of such local limits as the Central Government may, 

by notification, specify. 

(4) Every legal metrology officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall exercise powers and discharge 

duties under the general superintendence, direction and control of the Director. 

(5) The Director, the Controller and every legal metrology officer authorised to perform any duty by 

or under this Act shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian 

Penal Code (45 of 1860). 

(6) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Director, the Controller and 

legal metrology officer authorised to perform any duty by or under this Act in respect of anything which 

is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or any rule or order made thereunder. 

(7) The Central Government may, with the consent of the State Government and subject to such 

conditions, limitations and restrictions as it may specify in this behalf, delegate such of the powers of the 

Director under this Act as it may think fit to the Controller of legal metrology in the State, and such 

Controller may, if he is of opinion that it is necessary or expedient in the public interest so to do, delegate 

such of the powers delegated to him as he may think fit to any legal metrology officer and where any such 

delegation of powers is made by such Controller, the person to whom such powers are delegated shall 

exercise those powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on him 

directly by this Act and not by way of delegation. 

(8) Where any delegation of powers is made under sub-section (7), the powers so delegated shall be 

exercised under the general superintendence, direction and guidance of the Director.