Legal Metrology Act, 2014 (Act No. 9 of 2014)Chapter V : Type Approval and Verification of Measuring Instruments26. Offences in connection with verification of instruments |
| (1) | A verification officer is guilty of an offence if he or she— |
| (a) | consents to the continued use of a measuring instrument that was rejected in terms of section 25(3)(a); |
| (b) | issues a document to the effect that a measuring instrument has been verified under this Act if that measuring instrument has not been verified; |
| (c) | uses a verification mark for any purpose other than the intended purpose; |
| (d) | fails to reject a measuring instrument which is found not to comply with the requirements of this Act; |
| (e) | repairs and verifies a measuring instrument which he or she is not permitted to repair and verify in terms of section 25(2) or repairs an instrument for which he or she is not registered to repair in terms of section 10. |
| (f) | unless a measuring instrument has been submitted or made available to him or her by the owner or user thereof for verification— |
| (i) | falsely creates the impression with any owner or user that a measuring instrument is subject to verification by the verification officer; or |
| (ii) | compels any owner or user to have a measuring instrument verified by the verification officer. |
| (2) | A person is guilty of an offence if he or she— |
| (a) | forges or counterfeits any stamp or die used for the verification of any measuring instrument; |
| (b) | wilfully falsifies or tampers with a measuring instrument used for any prescribed purpose; |
| (c) | otherwise than in the capacity of a market surveillance inspector, a verification officer or a person responsible for repairs acting in terms of any regulation and save as provided for in section 27, intentionally obliterates or removes from any measuring instrument any verification mark or any part thereof; |
| (d) | otherwise than in the capacity of a verification officer, places upon any measuring instrument any mark purporting to indicate that such measuring instrument has been verified; or |
| (e) | sells, or disposes of, for use for any prescribed purpose, any measuring instrument that has been tampered with or that has been falsified or on which the verification mark has been defaced in terms of section 25(3)(a). |
| (3) | Any verification body that is not designated in terms of section 7 and that verifies a measuring instrument is guilty of an offence. |