NATIONAL MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 13 Verification of standards of measurement
NATIONAL MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 13
Verification of standards of measurement(1) On application under regulation 12, the verifying authority:
(a) may verify a standard of measurement; and
(b) if the standard is verified -- must issue a certificate of verification to the applicant; and
(c) may issue a copy of the certificate to anyone else the authority considers should be given a copy.
(2) The Chief Metrologist may verify a standard of measurement other than on application.
(2A) A verifying authority other than the Chief etrologist:
(a) may, with the written consent of the Chief etrologist, reverify a standard of measurement otherwise than on application; but
(b) is not otherwise authorised to verify or reverify a standard of measurement otherwise than on application.
Note: Regulation 90AB preserves rights and entitlements accrued in relation to verifications and reverifications conducted before the commencement of paragraph ( 2A)(a).
(3) If the standard of measurement is verified under the supervision of a verifying authority, the authority may verify the standard.
(4) The verifying authority must not verify a standard of
measurement mentioned in paragraph ( a) of the definition of standard
of measurement in subsection 3(1) of the Act unless the standard bears
a mark that identifies the standard.