A market surveillance inspector or verification officer may require the person submitting any measuring instrument for type approval, verification or using any measuring instrument for a prescribed purpose to—
| (a) |
dismantle it sufficiently to enable a market surveillance inspector or verification officer to examine the working parts; |
| (b) |
provide sufficient labour for the proper and expeditious handling of the standards or any material which may be used in the testing of such measurement instrument; |
| (c) |
provide measurement standards complying with the requirements of Part III of these Regulations to a market surveillance inspector or verification officer to undertake the prescribed tests; |
| (d) |
provide facilities for the measuring or re-measuring of the quantity of any product used for the testing of a measuring instrument; |
| (e) |
open any locking device on such measuring instrument or on any measuring instrument or ancillary equipment used in conjunction therewith; or |
| (f) |
furnish a market surveillance inspector or verification officer with a sufficient number of coins of appropriate denomination, or with a sufficient number of suitable metal discs, for the purpose of undertaking the prescribed tests of any coin-operated measuring instrument, which coins or discs must be returned to the submitter or be left in the measuring instrument on completion of the testing. |
Statistics Act, 1999
