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

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

34. Measurement for prescribed purpose to be effected in terms of certain measurement units and by means of verified measuring instruments
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(1)Any contract, bargain, sale, purchase or transaction made or effected in the Republic in respect of any land situated therein or in respect of any interest in land so situated or in respect of any product, service rendered or measurement for any other prescribed purpose, the quantity of which is expressed in terms of any measurement unit, must be made or effected in accordance with a prescribed measurement unit for such purpose.

 

(2)Any tolls, rates, taxes, fines or other fees charged or collected according to measurement of a physical quantity, must be charged or collected in accordance with such measurement units as may be prescribed.

 

(3)No measurement for a prescribed purpose may be made or effected in the Republic by means of any measuring instrument not permitted by this Act or which is false, defective or inaccurate or which, in the case of a measuring instrument which is required under this Act to be verified, is unverified.

 

(4)Subject to subsection (5), no person may import into the Republic any goods, including prepacked products, the quantity of which is expressed thereon or on any document relating thereto in terms of any unauthorised measurement unit, unless the equivalent of the quantity so expressed is also expressed in terms of a measurement unit prescribed for such purpose.

 

(5)Subsection (4) does not apply to any products which the Chief Executive Officer has exempted in writing or in respect of which the importer satisfies the Chief Executive Officer and the competent customs officer that such products are being imported for manufacturing purposes and not for sale.

 

(6)Any person who expresses the quantity of any product for sale in a manner or in terms of a measurement unit not prescribed for such purpose or in terms of any unauthorised measurement unit, is guilty of an offence.