Section 11: Appointments of superintendent and other officers.

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, there shall be appointed a fit person to be superintendent of weights and measures who shall be charged with administration of this Act, and such number of other fit persons as deputy superintendents and inspectors as may from time to time be required to assist the superintendent under this Act, and to be subject to his direction and control.
(2) The Minister, after consultation with the Governor of a State, may create inspectorial districts and assign thereto such number of duly appointed inspectors as may be required.
(3) Where immediately before the commencement of this section-
(a) any person is the holder of an office designated in subsection (1) of this section, that person shall on the commencement of this section continue in office and be deemed for the purposes only of this Act to have been appointed to his office under this section;
(b) inspectorial districts are in existence in a State, they shall, on the commencement of this section, continue in existence and be deemed to have been created under this section.
(4) Where in the special circumstances of a particular case, the Minister is satisfied that any power delegated to any local council or local authority under the Act repealed by this Act, is not being properly exercised or has been abused, the Minister may by order revoke that power.