• Legal Metrology Act, 2014 (Act No. 9 of 2014)
  • Notice No. 385 of 2014
  • Act
  • Preamble
  • 1. Definitions
  • Chapter I : Application, Objects and Administration of Act
    • 2. Application and objects of Act
    • 3. Administration of Act
    • 4. Functions of National Regulator
    • 5. Delegation of functions
    • 6. Appointment of market surveillance inspectors
    • 7. Designation of verification bodies
    • 8. Appointment of verification officers
    • 9. Designation of repair bodies
    • 10. Registration of persons responsible for repairs
    • 11. Registration of importers, manufacturers and persons who offer for sale any prescribed measuring instrument, product or service
    • 12. Advisory Forum
    • 13. Funds of National Regulator in respect of legal metrology
    • 14. Fees charged by designated bodies
  • Chapter II : Legal Metrology Technical Regulations
    • 15. Legal metrology technical regulations
    • 16. Proposals to introduce or amend legal metrology technical regulations
    • 17. Effect of declaration as  legal metrology technical regulations
    • 18. Measuring instrument, used by market surveillance inspectors, verification officers and persons responsible for repairs
  • Chapter III : Measurement Standards
    • 19. Measurement standards used by market surveillance inspectors, verification officers and persons responsible for repairs
  • Chapter IV : Market Surveillance Inspections
    • 20. Powers of market surveillance inspectors
    • 21. Market surveillance  inspection offences
  • Chapter V : Type Approval and Verification of Measuring Instruments
    • 22. Type approval of measuring instruments
    • 23. Type approval offences
    • 24. Verification of measuring instruments
    • 25. Powers of verification officers
    • 26. Offences in connection with verification of instruments
  • Chapter VI : Repair of Measuring Instruments
    • 27. Functions of persons responsible for repairs
    • 28. Offences in respect of measuring instruments
  • Chapter VII : Manner of Use, Possession of or Sale of Measuring Instruments and Products
    • 29. Restriction on and prohibition of manufacture, import, use or possession of certain measuring instruments
    • 30. Sale, supply and use of universal measuring instruments
    • 31. Offences in respect of manufacture or selling of false, defective or inaccurate measuring instruments
    • 32. Measuring instruments to be wholly exposed
    • 33. Prohibition of false statement as to quantity
    • 34. Measurement for prescribed purpose to be effected in terms of certain measurement units and by means of verified measuring instruments
    • 35. Advertisement of measurable products and services
    • 36. Manner of selling products
  • Chapter VIII : Compliance schemes and Use of Marks
    • 37. Compliance schemes and use of distinctive marks and verification marks
  • Chapter IX : General and Miscellaneous
    • 38. Regulations
    • 39. Penalties and effect of an offence
    • 40. Disclosure of certain information
    • 41. Confidentiality of certain information
    • 42. Repeal and amendment of laws and transitional provisions
    • 43. Short title and commencement
  • Schedules
    • Schedule 1
    • Schedule 2
• Regulations
  • Tariff of Fees charged for Services rendered in terms of the Legal Metrology Act by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS): Amendments
    • Notice No. 643 of 2015
    • Schedule
      • Part A: Charges for Verification of Instruments
      • Part B: Charges for Type Approval of Measuring Instruments
      • Part C: General Additional Costs
      • Part D: Legal Metrology : Other Fees
    • Notice No. 630 of 2019
    • Schedule
      • Part A: Charges for Verification of Instruments
      • Part B: Charges for Type Approval of Measuring Instruments
      • Part C: General Additional Costs
      • Part D: Legal Metrology : Other Fees
      • Part E: Legal Metrology Calibration Fees
  • Legal Metrology Regulations, 2017
    • Notice No. 877 of 2018
    • Part I : Definitions and application of requirement of the Act
      • 1. Definitions
      • 2. Application of requirements of the Act
    • Part II : Registration of importers, manufacturers, persons who offer for sale any prescribed measuring instrument, product or service
      • 3. Requirements for registration
      • 4. Offence in connection with registration of importers, manufacturers or persons who offered for sale any prescribed measuring instrument, product or service
      • 5. Inspection, seizing and retention of measuring instruments, products or services by market surveillance inspectors
    • Part III : Measurement Standards
      • 6. General requirements
      • 7. Measurement standards of mass
      • 8. Measurement standards of volume
      • 9. Measurement Standards of Length
    • Part IV : Market Surveillance Inspectors
      • 10. Qualifications of market surveillance inspectors
      • 11. Exercising the powers of a market surveillance inspectors
    • Part V : Sale of Goods
      • 12. Goods destined for export
      • 13. Seller of importer to take precaution regarding quantity of goods purchased for resale
      • 14. Delivery note, invoice or other writing to accompany goods delivered
      • 15. General requirements for issuing delivery note, invoice or other writing
      • 16. Goods to be measured after despatched
      • 17. Liquid products in vehicle tanks and bulk containers
      • 18. Duties of person conveying goods
      • 19. Dealers to retain delivery notes
    • Part VI : Requirements for marking of prepackages and prescribed quantities
      • 20. Markings on prepackaged products and prescribed quantities
      • 21. Goods or articles ordered by purchaser in person
      • 22. Non-consumer packages
      • 23. Standard temperature for sale of prepackaged liquid products
      • 24. Marking of equivalent statement of quanitity on prepackaged products
      • 25. Qualification of statement of quanitity on prepackaged products
      • 26. Prepackaged products sold other than by measurement unit
    • Part VII : Special requirements for sale of goods sold other than in prepackaged form
      • 27. Price descriptions
      • 28. Standard temperature for liquid products measured at time of sale
      • 29. Purchase of milk by mass
      • 30. Measurement units in which quantity of certain goods must be expressed
    • Part VIII : Accuracy of measurement when determining quantity of goods
      • 31. Suitable instruments to be used and made available
      • 32. Tolerances permitted on determination of the quantity of goods
      • 33. Accuracy of vessels or containers used for sale of liquids
      • 34. Authorisation to deviate from requirements
    • Part IX : Compliance schemes
      • 35. Quantity mark scheme
      • 36. Measurement mark scheme
      • 37. Application for registration certificate
      • 38. Offences in respect of compliance schemes marks
    • Part X : Measuring instruments, products or services not conforming to legal metrology technical regulations
      • 39. Directive
      • 40. Confiscation
      • 41. Destruction
      • 42. Return to country of origin
    • Part XI : Measuring instruments and containers used for prescribed purposes
      • 43. Measurement units, prefixes, symbols and their usage
      • 44. Permissible nominal values (denominations) of weights and of material measures
      • 45. Measuring instruments not to be subject to initial or subsequent verification and prohibition from use of certain measuring instruments
      • 46. Use of units for indication for results of measurements
      • 47. Form of values of graduations
      • 48. Reading by simple juxtaposition
      • 49. Advance of indication by digital indicators
      • 50. Extent of rounding error permitted
      • 51. Indication by several indicators
      • 52. Notice in connection with periodic verification of measuring instruments as envisaged in section 24(2) of Act
      • 53. Measuring instruments acquired unverified to be verified before use for prescribed purpose
      • 54. Measuring instruments deemed to be unverified after having been re-installed
      • 55. Acceptability of declared quantity
      • 56. Method of determining tare or gross mass of containers, railway trucks or road vehicles
      • 57. Weighing instruments used for determining axle mass loads of vehicles
      • 58. Measuring instruments not intended for use for prescribed purpose
      • 59. Duties of person submitting or using measuring instruments
      • 60. Verification on premises of designated repair or verification body
      • 61. Marking of number of approval certificate
      • 62. Removable parts
      • 63. Interchangeable or reversible parts
      • 64. Marking of capacity or denomination
      • 65. Affixing of verification mark
      • 66. Defacing of verification mark and authority for further use
      • 67. New and used measuring instruments
      • 68. Weighing instruments: Position of balance and means of balancing at zero load
      • 69. Placing of indicators of weighing instruments
      • 70. Construction and strength of weighing instruments and measuring instruments
      • 71. Positioning of weighing instruments
      • 72. Knife-edges and bearings
      • 73. Steelyards and travelling or sliding poises on weighing instruments
      • 74. Testing of movable and suspended weighing instruments
      • 75. Testing of fixed weighing instruments
      • 76. Testing of weighing instruments for error
      • 77. Composition of test loads
      • 78. Testing of weighing instruments for repeatability
      • 79. Testing of weighing instruments for constancy when load is kept on measuring instrument
      • 80. Testing of weighing instruments for constancy at zero balance
      • 81. Testing of vibrating weighing instruments for sensitivity
      • 82. Testing of weighing instruments for strength of levers
      • 83. Testing of weighing instruments on movement of knife-edges and bearings
      • 84. Conventional weighing instruments
      • 85. Beam scales, balances, post office letter beam scales and mechanical non-self indicating counter scales
      • 86. Responsibilities of users of measuring instruments
      • 87. Weights for coarse measurement
      • 88. Weights for fine measurement
      • 89. Conformity to appropriate technical regulations
      • 90. Non-automatic self-indicating, semi-self-indicating and non-self-indicating weighing instruments with denominated verification scale intervals
      • 91. Automatic rail-weighbridges
      • 92. Automatic weighing instruments
      • 93. Cream test beam scales and torsion balances index
      • 94. Road vehicle scale for determination of the mass of road vehicles in motion or axle by axle
      • 95. Conventional length measuring instruments
      • 96. Length measuring instruments including self-indicating measures of length
      • 97. Area-measuring instruments
      • 98. Conventional measures of volume
      • 99. Dipping measure
      • 100. Graduated glass measures for pharmaceutical dispensing and comparable measurement
      • 101. Measuring flasks
      • 102. Pipettes
      • 103. Burettes
      • 104. Vehicle tanks
      • 105. Vehicle tanks provided with gauges
      • 106. Liquid-measuring devices
      • 107. Measuring devices and systems for measurement of cryogenic liquids and specified liquid gases
      • 108. Liquid meters and liquid meter systems
      • 109. Milk meter systems
      • 110. Liquefied petroleum gas meter systems
      • 111. Liquid meter systems for predetermined quantities
      • 112. Lubricating oil dispensers
      • 113. Liquid fuel dispensers
      • 114. Water meters
      • 115. Gas meters for domestic use
      • 116. Vessels or containers used for sale of liquids
    • Part XII : Verification and repair bodies
      • 117. Requirements for designation of verification bodies
      • 118. Responsibility of verification body
      • 119. Withdrawal of designation of verification body
      • 120. Verification Certificate
      • 121. Reporting of verification results
      • 122. Rejection Certificate
      • 123. Registration and qualifications of verification officers
      • 124. Requirements for designation of repair bodies
      • 125. Responsibilities of designated repair body
      • 126. Withdrawal of designation of repair body
      • 127. Registration and qualifications of persons responsible for repair (also referred to as "repairer")
      • 128. Certificate of repair
      • 129. Reporting of repair results
      • 130. Restrictions with respect to repair and verification of measuring instruments
      • 131. Commencement of Part XII
    • Part XIII : Distinctive Marks
      • 132. Approval mark
      • 133. Rejection mark
      • 134. Verification mark
      • 135. Protective mark
      • 136. Repair Mark
    • Part XIV : Measuring instruments, vessels or containers exempted from type approval and verification
      • 137. Measuring instruments
      • 138. Conditions, restrictions and requirements
      • 139. Declaration of an instrument as unfit for further use
      • 140. Measuring instruments not exempted under regulation 137
      • 141. General exemptions
    • Part XV : Application for evaluation and approval of measuring instruments
      • 142. Application of measuring instruments in terms of section 22 of Act
      • 143. Marking on specimen
      • 144. Period of validity of type approval certificate
    • Part XVI : Regulation pertaining to periodic verification
      • 145. Requirements
    • Part XVII : General
      • 146. Repeal
      • 147. Short title and commencement
• Notices
  • Notice in terms of Section 2(2) of the Legal Metrology Regulations of 2018
    • Notice No. R. 1028 of 2020
    • Notice No. 288 of 2021