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Weights and Measures Act 1987

Offences and penalties

34: Forfeitures

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“What happens to things used in breaking weight and measure laws”

If you break the law about weights and measures, a court can decide to take away (or forfeit) any weights, measures, weighing or measuring tools, or goods that were part of the crime. The court can do this instead of or along with other punishments.

If the court decides to take these things away, they immediately belong to the government (the Crown). The Secretary, who is a government official, then gets to choose what happens to these items.

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Part 6 Offences and penalties

34Forfeitures

  1. Where any person is convicted of an offence against this Act or any regulations made under this Act, the convicting court may, in addition to, or instead of, imposing any other sentence or making any other order, order that any weight, measure, weighing or measuring instrument, or goods in respect of which the offence was committed shall be forfeited to the Crown.

  2. Any weight, measure, weighing or measuring instrument, or goods ordered, under subsection (1), to be forfeited to the Crown—

  3. shall thereupon become forfeited to the Crown accordingly; and
    1. may be disposed of in such manner as the Secretary directs.

      Compare
      • 1983 No 44 s 69
      Notes
      • Section 34(2)(b): amended, on , by section 9(2) of the Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 9).