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Weights and Measures Act 1987

Administration - Accredited persons

30A: Appointment of accredited persons

You could also call this:

“How the Secretary allows people to check and approve weights and measures”

The Secretary can give a letter to someone saying they can be an accredited person. This means the person can do two things: put a special mark on weights, measures, and weighing or measuring tools to show they are correct, and give out certificates that say these things are accurate.

If the accredited person isn’t a real person (like a company), the letter will list the names of real people who will do the work for that company. The law will treat these people as if they were accredited themselves.

The Secretary can set rules about what the accredited person is allowed to do. They might only be allowed to work with certain types of weights, measures, or tools.

If a company is accredited, they can ask the Secretary to change the list of people who can do the work for them. They might have to pay a fee for this. The Secretary can add or remove names from this list.

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Part 5 Administration
Accredited persons

30AAppointment of accredited persons

  1. The Secretary may from time to time, by letter of accreditation in the prescribed form (if any), accredit any person to act as an accredited person under this Act for the purposes of—

  2. stamping with a mark of verification any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument; and
    1. issuing certificates of accuracy in respect of any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument.

      1. Where a person other than a natural person is accredited under subsection (1), the letter of accreditation shall specify the name of every natural person who is to exercise or perform the powers, duties, and functions of an accredited person on behalf of that person, and this Act shall apply in respect of every person so specified as if that person had been accredited by that letter of accreditation.

      2. The Secretary may impose in respect of the accreditation of any person under subsection (1) such conditions as the Secretary thinks fit, including conditions limiting or restricting the class or classes of weights, measures, or weighing or measuring instruments to which the accreditation relates.

      3. Where a letter of accreditation to which subsection (2) applies is issued to any person, the Secretary may from time to time, at the request of that person, and on payment of the prescribed fee (if any), amend the letter of accreditation by omitting or adding the name of any natural person who is to exercise or perform the powers, duties, and functions of an accredited person on behalf of that person.

      Notes
      • Section 30A: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 9).