Company : Sol Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Website : www.courtkutchehry.com STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (NUMERATION) RULES, 1987 CONTENTS 1. Short title and commencement 2. Numeration-How to be made 3 . Manner in which numbers exceeding three digits (how to be expressed) shall be written in words 4. Manner in which numbers shall be written (how to be written) SCHEDULE 1 :- SCHEDULE STANDARDS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (NUMERATION) RULES, 1987 G.S.R. 946(E), dated 2nd December, 1987. 1 -In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 83 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely : 1. Short title and commencement :- (1) These rules may be called the Standards of Weights and Measures (Numeration) Rules, 1987. (2) They shall come into force on the date1 of their publication in the official Gazette. 1. Enforced w.e.f. 2nd December, 1987. 2. Numeration-How to be made :- (1) Every numeration shall be made in accordance with the decimal system. (2) Every number shall be represented on base ten. 1 (3) In representing any number in digits, the International form of Indian numerals, namely, 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. or a combination thereof shall be used."; Provided that for a period of ten years from the commencement of these rules, any other numerals may be used for the purpose aforesaid, except where the use of such other numeral is prohibited by any law for the time being in force. 1. Substituted by "The Standards of Weights and Measures (Numeration) Amendment Rules, 2002., dated 14th March, 2002 3. Manner in which numbers exceeding three digits (how to be expressed) shall be written in words :- Numbers expressed in digits exceeding three shall be written in words in the manner specified in the Schedule annexed to these rules : 1 [****] 1. Omitted by "The Standards of Weights and Measures (Numeration) Amendment Rules, 2002., dated 14th March, 2002 4. Manner in which numbers shall be written (how to be written) :- (1) In writing, according to any Indian terminology, and number in digits exceeding three, the decimal point shall be taken as the starting point and the first three digits, whether to the left or right of the decimal point, shall be grouped together and the subsequent digits shall be divided in groups of two and neither dots nor commas shall be inserted in the spaces intervening between such groups of digits. Example: 23 14 345, 732 23 50 (2) In writing according to English terminology, any number in digit exceeding three, the decimal point shall be taken as the starting point and the digits, whether to the left or to the right of the decimal point, shall be divided into groups of three, starting from the decimal point and, neither dots nor commas shall be inserted in the spaces intervening between such groups of digits. Example: 123 345, 732 456. SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE (See rule 3)