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Weights and Measures Act 1987

Stamping, verification, and approval of weights and measures

23: Notification of non-compliance

You could also call this:

“Telling someone their scales or measuring tools don't follow the rules”

If you have a weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument that needs to be checked, an accredited person will look at it. If they find that it doesn’t meet the rules set by the law, they won’t stamp it or give it a certificate to say it’s accurate. Instead, they’ll do two things:

First, they’ll give a notice to the person in charge of the item right away. This notice will explain that the item doesn’t meet the requirements. If they can’t give the notice to a person, they’ll attach it to the item itself.

Second, they’ll send a copy of this notice to the Secretary as soon as they can.

The notice will be in a special form that the law says they must use. It will include enough information to identify the item, like its serial number. It will also explain exactly how the item doesn’t meet the rules, including when and where the problem was found.

This process helps make sure that weights and measures used in New Zealand are accurate and follow the rules set by the law.

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Part 4 Stamping, verification, and approval of weights and measures

23Notification of non-compliance

  1. Where an accredited person declines to stamp with a mark of verification, or to issue a certificate of accuracy in respect of, any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument on the grounds that the weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument does not comply with the requirements of this Act or of any regulations made under this Act, the accredited person shall—

  2. forthwith give to the person in charge of that weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument a notice of non-compliance; and
    1. as soon as practicable send to the Secretary a copy of the notice.

      1. Where it is not possible or practicable to give a notice of non-compliance in accordance with subsection (1)(a), the accredited person shall attach the notice to the weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument.

      2. Every notice of non-compliance shall be in the prescribed form, and shall contain—

      3. such information as is sufficient to identify the weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument in respect of which it is issued, including any serial number or other identifying feature; and
        1. particulars of the respects in which the weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument does not comply with the requirements of this Act or of any regulations made under this Act, including details of the time and place of the non-compliance.

          Notes
          • Section 23: substituted, on , by section 7 of the Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 9).