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Weights and Measures Act 1987

Sale of goods by weight, measure, or number

18: Statement of true weight, etc, to be supplied to seller

You could also call this:

“Sellers must get a note about how much you're buying”

When you buy things that are sold by weight, measure, or number, and someone other than the seller figures out how much there is, that person must give the seller a written note right away. This note needs to say the correct weight, measure, or number of the things you’re buying. But if the seller weighs, measures, or counts the items in front of you at their shop, they don’t need this written note. If someone doesn’t give the seller this written note when they should, they’re breaking the law. This rule started on 1 April 1987, except for when people sell meat carcasses or half-carcasses by weight for export. For those meat sales, the rule began on 1 October 1987.

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Part 3 Sale of goods by weight, measure, or number

18Statement of true weight, etc, to be supplied to seller

  1. Where any person sells any goods by weight or measure or number, and the weight or measure or number of those goods is determined, for the purposes of that sale, by someone other than the seller of those goods, the person who makes that determination shall forthwith deliver or send to the seller a written statement of the true net weight, measure, or number of those goods.

  2. Nothing in subsection (1) applies to any goods weighed, measured, or counted at the premises of the seller in the seller's presence.

  3. Every person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence.

  4. This section, so far as it applies in respect of the sale by weight of carcasses or half-carcasses of meat which, at the time of sale, are intended for export, shall come into force on 1 October 1987, but shall otherwise come into force on 1 April 1987.