Section 18, Weights and Measures Act, 2010

(1) Every Inspector may, subject to the production if sorequested of a certificate of his appointment, at all reasonable times enter any shop, store, warehouse, stall, yard or other place, in which he has reasonable cause to believe that goods are bought, sold, exposed, or kept for sale, or weighed or measured for conveyance or carriage, and may require the production of, and may examine, any weight, measure or instrument for weighing or measuring that may be there. (2) If on the examination the Inspector has reasonable cause to believe that any such weight, measure or instrument for weighing or measuring is made or used contrary to any of the provisions of this Act or of any statutory instrument made thereunder, he may seize, carry away, and detain it for the purpose of comparing it with a working standard. PART V – OFFENCES