Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Regulations

TRADE MEASUREMENT (PREPACKED ARTICLES) REGULATION 1991

- made under the Trade Measurement Act 1991

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of regulation  
   2.      Dictionary  
   2A.     Notes  
   4.      Exemptions from marking requirements—name, address and  
   5.      Exemptions for packages containing paper  
   6.      Requirements applicable to both inner and outer packages  
   7.      Exemptions for certain inner and outer packages  

   PART 2--MARKING OF NAME AND ADDRESS

   8.      Marking of name and address on packages  
   9.      Exemption for packaged seed  

   PART 3--MARKING OF MEASUREMENT

           Division 3.1--General requirements for measurement marking

   10.     Requirement to mark measurement  
   11.     General position of measurement marking  
   11A.    Position of measurement marking on standard wine package  
   12.     Set out and form of measurement marking  
   13.     Size etc of characters in measurement marking  
   14.     Unit etc of measurement to be used  
   15.     Fractions and significant figures  
   16.     Special provision—marking by approved printing device  
   17.     Marking by reference to minimum measurement  

           Division 3.2--Special provision for measurement marking of certain articles

   18.     Eggs  
   19.     Articles packed in sheets  
   20.     Number of prepacked articles comprising 1t  
   21.     Bedsheets, tarpaulins etc  
   22.     Pairs of window curtains  
   23.     Marking of width or thickness if it directly affects price  

           Division 3.3--Special provisions about measurement marking of outer packages

   24.     Package containing packages of articles of the same kind and  
   25.     Inner and outer packages of single article  
   26.     Package containing articles of different kinds or different  

           Division 3.4--Other markings about measurement

   27.     Unit price marking—retail sales of certain foods by mass  

   PART 4--PROHIBITED AND RESTRICTED EXPRESSIONS

   28.     Marking of mass when packed  
   29.     Marking of mass at standard condition  
   30.     Restrictions on use of gross mass  
   31.     Prohibited expressions  

   PART 5--SHORT MEASURE

   31A.    Meaning of permissible actual deficiency and permissible average deficiency—pt  
   32.     Extent of deficiency necessary to constitute short measure  
   33.     Articles marked mass when packed etc.  
   34.     Articles marked mass at standard condition  
   35.     Other prepacked articles  
   36.     Method of deciding average measurement  

   PART 6--MISCELLANEOUS

   37.     Mass of frozen prepacked scallops  
   38.     Application for permit to sell certain articles  
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           DICTIONARY
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