Statistics Act, 1999
R 385
Legal Metrology Act, 2014 (Act No. 9 of 2014)RegulationsLegal Metrology Regulations, 2017Part I : Definitions and application of requirement of the Act2. Application of requirements of the Act |
| (1) | The purposes relating to the use or possession for use of any measuring instrument or the measurement of a product or a service for which a technical regulation has been published by the Minister under Section 15 of the Act or for which interim requirements and conditions pertaining to the use thereof has been set by the CEO under Section 22(2)(c) of the Act or for any other applicable provision of the Act must be in relation to a prescribed purpose as defined in the Act. |
| (2) | Any person who, at the commencement of the Act or these Regulations, use for a prescribed purpose, any equipment which was allowed to be used under the requirements of any other law requiring compliance to a South African National Standard, may continue to use the equipment for a period of 24 months from the commencement of these Regulations or for such additional period as the Minister may determine by notice in the Government Gazette. |
| (3) | The person referred to in subregulation (2) above must submit a proposal to the CEO to introduce a legal metrology technical regulation as contemplated in Section 16(1) of the Act within six months from the commencement of these Regulations. |
