law: Trade Marks Act, 1999  
  82. Determination of character of textile
  
  goods by sampling .- 
  (1) For the purposes of this Act, the Central
  
  Government may make rules.- 
  (a) to provide, with
  
  respect to any goods which purport or are alleged to be of uniform number,
  
  quantity, measure, gauge or weight, for the number of samples to be selected
  
  and tested and for the selection of the samples.
  (b) to provide, for
  
  the manner in which for the purposes of section 81 cotton yarn and cotton tread
  
  shall be marked with the particulars required by that section, and for the
  
  exemption of certain premises used for the manufacturer, bleaching, dying or
  
  finishing of cotton yarn or cotton thread from the provisions of that section,
  
  and
  (c) declaring what
  
  classes of goods are included in the expression "piece goods such as are
  
  ordinarily sold by length or by the piece" for the purpose of section 81,
  
  of this Act or clause (n) of sub section 92) of section 11 of the Customs Act,
  
  1962 (52 of 1962).
  (2) With respect of any goods for the
  
  selection and testing of samples of which provision is not made in any rules
  
  for the time being in force under sub-section 91), the court of officer of
  
  customs, as the case may be, having occasion to ascertain the number, quantity,
  
  measure gauge or weight of the goods, by order by writing, determine the number
  
  of samples to be selected and tested and the manner in which the samples are to
  
  be selected.
  (3) The average of the results of the testing
  
  in pursuance of rules under sub-section (1) or of an order under sub-section
  
  (2) shall be prima facie evidence of the number, quantity, measurer, gauge or
  
  weight, as the case may be, of the goods.
  (4) If a person having any claim to, or in
  
  relation to any goods of which samples have been selected and tested in
  
  pursuance of rules under sub-section (1), or of an order under sub-section (2),
  
  desires that any further samples of the goods be selected and tested, such
  
  further samples shall, on his written application and on the payment and
  
  tested, such further samples shall, on his written application and on the
  
  payment in advance by him to the court or officer of customs, as the case may
  
  be, of such sums in for defraying the cost of the further selection and testing
  
  as the court or officer may from time to time, be selected and tested to such
  
  extent as may be permitted by rules may be the Central Government in this
  
  behalf or as, in the case of goods with respect to which provision is not made
  
  in such rules, the court or officer of customs may determine in the
  
  circumstances to be reasonable, the samples being selected in the manner
  
  prescribed under sub-section (1), or in sub-section (2), as the case may be.
  (5) The average of the results of the testing
  
  referred to in sub-section (3) and of the further testing under sub-section (4)
  
  shall be conclusive proof of the number, quantity, measure, gauge or weight, as
  
  the case may be, of the goods.