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

Chapter IV : Market Surveillance Inspections

21. Market surveillance inspection offences

 

A person is guilty of an offence if that person—

(a) hinders or obstructs any market surveillance inspector in the exercise of his or her powers under section 20;
(b) fails on demand to produce or place at the disposal of any market surveillance inspector  any  measuring  instrument,  product  or  other  related  evidence, including documentation contemplated in section 20(2)(a);
(c) fails to uphold an order given by any market surveillance inspector in terms of section 20(2)(c) or (d);
(d) refuses to permit any market surveillance inspector to open any products or instrument in terms of section 20(2)(e);
(e) fails to render any assistance to any market surveillance inspector if so requested by the market surveillance inspector in terms of section 20(9); or
(f) falsely holds himself or herself out to be a market surveillance inspector.