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Section 264 — Fraudulent use of false instrument for weighing

As in force on 1 January 2020.

Timeline 3 versions
  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
  3. 17 August 2026 Latest
Repealed in force 1 January 2020 by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
264.Fraudulent use of false instrument for weighing

Whoever fraudulently uses any instrument for weighing which he knows to be false, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 264]

264.

[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]