Legal Metrology Act, 2014 (Act No. 9 of 2014)Chapter II : Legal Metrology Technical Regulations17. Effect of declaration as legal metrology technical regulations |
| (1) | No person may import, manufacture, sell or supply a measuring instrument or product, or render a service, to which a legal metrology technical regulation applies, except in accordance with that legal metrology technical regulation. |
| (2) | No person may import, sell or supply a measuring instrument or product, or render a service, to which a legal metrology technical regulation applies, unless— |
| (a) | the measuring instrument, product or service complies with, or has been manufactured in accordance with, the legal metrology technical regulation; or |
| (b) | if applicable, the distinctive mark referred to in section 37(1) has been applied to the measuring instrument, product or service in the prescribed manner and the measuring instrument, product or service has been marked in accordance with any requirements in terms of section 37(2). |
| (3) | Any person who imports, sells or supplies a measuring instrument, product or service to which a legal metrology technical regulation applies, must— |
| (a) | keep and make available to a surveillance inspector such records as may be prescribed; and |
| (b) | pay such fees to the National Regulator as may be prescribed. |