law: The Legal Metrology Act, 2009
  Chapter III
  
  Appointment and Powers of Director, Controller and Legal Metrology Officers
  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.
  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.