Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT ACT 1991

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Dictionary  
   2A.     Notes  
   3.      Determining certain quantities  
   4.      Use of measuring instrument for trade—meaning  
   6.      Exemptions from Act  

   PART 2--USE OF MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR TRADE

   7.      Measuring instruments used for trade must be marked  
   7A.     Use of class 4 measuring instruments  
   7B.     Use of measuring instruments for prepacked articles  
   8.      Unjust measurement  
   9.      Supplying incorrect etc measuring instrument  

   PART 3--VERIFICATION, REVERIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

   10.     Provision and maintenance of standards  
   11.     Verification and reverification by inspectors  
   12.     Certification by licensees  
   13.     Requirements for measuring instruments  
   14.     Standards of measurement to be used  
   15.     Responsibilities of administering authority concerning verification and  
   16.     Prohibition on use if reverification cannot be carried out  
   17.     Rejection of instrument by inspector—obliteration of marks  
   18.     Duty of repairers etc to obliterate marks  
   19.     Marks on labels affixed to measuring instruments  
   20.     Making mark without authority  
   21.     Other offences concerning marks  

   PART 4--TRANSACTIONS BY MEASUREMENT

   22.     Measurement must be open to scrutiny in certain cases  
   23.     Incorrect measurement or price calculation  
   24.     Variation of quantity ordered  
   25.     Special provisions for sale of meat  
   26.     Articles required to be sold by specific measurement  
   27.     Presumptions concerning mass of vehicles  

   PART 5--PRE-PACKED ARTICLES

           Division 5.1--Requirements for packaging and sale of prepacked articles

   28.     Requirements for packaging of prepacked articles  
   29.     Defences concerning packaging of prepacked articles  
   30.     Restrictions on use of certain expressions on packages  
   31.     Incorrect pricing of prepacked article  
   32.     Offence of packing or selling short measure  
   33.     Extent of deficiency necessary to constitute short measure  
   34.     Defences concerning short measure  
   35.     Seller's general defence  
   36.     Employee's general defence  
   37.     Regulations concerning methods of measurement  

           Division 5.2--Permit to sell certain prepacked articles

   38.     Administering authority may issue permits  
   39.     Requirements for issue  
   40.     Cancellation of permits  
   41.     Recognition of permits under corresponding laws  

   PART 6--LICENSING

           Division 6.1--Requirements for licences

   42.     Requirement for servicing licence  
   43.     Requirement for public weighbridge licence  

           Division 6.2--Granting of licences

   44.     Application for licence  
   45.     Grounds for refusal  
   46.     Licensee to be allotted a mark  
   47.     Register of licences  
   48.     Conditions may be imposed on licences  
   49.     Conditions on all servicing licences  
   50.     Conditions on all public weighbridge licences  
   51.     Conditions need not be endorsed on licence  
   52.     Periodic licence fee  
   53.     Cancellation for nonpayment of licence fee  
   54.     Surrender etc of licence  
   55.     Order preventing employment of certain persons  

           Division 6.3--Disciplinary action against licensees

   56.     Grounds for disciplinary action  
   57.     Notice to licensee of grounds for disciplinary action  
   58.     Taking of disciplinary action  

           Division 6.4--Notification and review of decisions

   59.     Meaning of reviewable decision—div 6.4  
   59A.    Reviewable decision notices  
   59B.    Applications for review  

   PART 7--INSPECTORS

   60.     Powers of entry etc  
   61.     Powers in relation to measuring instruments  
   62.     Powers in relation to articles  
   63.     Prepacked articles—special powers  
   64.     Return etc of seized property  
   65.     Obstruction etc of inspector  
   66.     Selfincrimination  
   67.     Inspector's certificate of authority to be produced  

   PART 8--MISCELLANEOUS

   69.     Compensation for loss caused by offence  
   70.     Recovery of compensation amount  
   71.     Offence by employee—liability of employer  
   72.     Offence by body corporate—liability of directors etc  
   74.     Evidence—signature of administering authority  
   75.     Certificate evidence  
   76.     Evidence—prepacked articles  
   77.     Packaged article presumed to be prepacked in certain circumstances  
   78.     Evidence—use of measuring instrument for trade  
   79.     Records—English language  
   81.     Regulation-making power  
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