Overview of Division

(1)   This Division   deals with the verification of measuring instruments.

(2)   Verification is defined in section   18GG. It is a process of ensuring that measuring instruments operate accurately.

(3)   Trade measurement inspectors, servicing licensees and employees of servicing licensees are permitted to verify measuring instruments (other than utility meters) (see section   18GH).

(4)   Utility meter verifiers are permitted to verify utility meters (see section   18GI).

(5)   Certain requirements must be met before a measuring instrument may be verified (see section   18GK).

(6)   This Division   contains offences for persons who:

  (a)   use a verification mark when not permitted to do so (see section   18GM); and

  (b)   sell or supply measuring instruments that have been marked with a verification mark by a person not permitted to do so (see section   18GN); and

  (c)   mark measuring instruments in a misleading way (see section   18GO); and

  (d)   possess false verification marks (see section   18GP); and

  (e)   fail to obliterate verification marks if a measuring instrument's metrological performance is affected by repairs (see sections   18GPA and 18GQ).