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Legal Metrology Act, 2014 (Act No. 9 of 2014)

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Legal Metrology Regulations, 2017

Part XI : Measuring instruments and containers used for prescribed purposes

59. Duties of person submitting or using measuring instruments

 

A market surveillance inspector or verification officer may require the person submitting any measuring instrument for type approval, verification or using any measuring instrument for a prescribed purpose to—

(a) dismantle it sufficiently to enable a market surveillance inspector or verification officer to examine the working parts;
(b) provide sufficient labour for the proper and expeditious handling of the standards or any material which may be used in the testing of such measurement instrument;
(c) provide measurement standards complying with the requirements of Part III of these Regulations to a market surveillance inspector or verification officer to undertake the prescribed tests;
(d) provide facilities for the measuring or re-measuring of the quantity of any product used for the testing of a measuring instrument;
(e) open any locking device on such measuring instrument or on any measuring instrument or ancillary equipment used in conjunction therewith; or
(f) furnish a market surveillance inspector or verification officer with a sufficient number of coins of appropriate denomination, or with a sufficient number of suitable metal discs, for the purpose of undertaking the prescribed tests of any coin-operated measuring instrument, which coins or discs must be returned to the submitter or be left in the measuring instrument on completion of the testing.