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

Chapter VII : Manner of Use, Possession of or Sale of Measuring Instruments and Products

31. Offences in respect of manufacture or selling of false, defective or inaccurate measuring instruments

 

(1) A person who manufactures, sells or causes to be sold any false, defective or inaccurate measuring instrument, is guilty of an offence.

 

(2) A person who manufactures sells, or causes to be sold, any measuring instrument for any prescribed purpose that does not comply with the requirements of a notice issued under section 29 or with the requirements of any applicable legal metrology technical regulation, is guilty of an offence.

 

(3) A person is guilty of an offence if that person—
(a) furnishes a guarantee in terms of section 30(1)(b)(ii) in respect of any measuring instrument which is not correct and verifiable under this Act;
(b) contravenes or fails to comply with section 30(2); or
(c) uses a measuring instrument contemplated in section 30(3) after the date on which the permission expires without having caused the measuring instrument to be verified.