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Weights and Measures Act 1987

Stamping, verification, and approval of weights and measures

22B: Certificate of accuracy required for certain weighing or measuring instruments

You could also call this:

“Some special weighing or measuring tools used in trade need a paper to show they're correct”

If you use or have a special weighing or measuring tool for trade, you need to make sure it has a current certificate that says it’s accurate. This rule applies to specific types of tools that the government has listed in their rules.

If you don’t follow this rule, you’re breaking the law. The government decides which weighing or measuring tools need these certificates. They write this information in a separate set of rules.

Remember, it’s your job to have this certificate if you’re using or keeping one of these special tools for trade. Make sure you know if your tool is one that needs a certificate, and always keep the certificate up to date.

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

22BCertificate of accuracy required for certain weighing or measuring instruments

  1. A person who uses for trade, or has in that person's possession for use for trade, a specified weighing or measuring instrument must have a current certificate of accuracy for that instrument.

  2. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence.

  3. In this section, specified weighing or measuring instrument means an instrument specified in regulations made under section 41(ba) as a weighing or measuring instrument to which this section applies.

Notes
  • Section 22B: inserted, on , by section 12 of the Weights and Measures Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 145).