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

Regulations

Legal Metrology Regulations, 2017

Part XIV : Measuring instruments, vessels or containers exempted from type approval and verification

137. Measuring instruments
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Subject to regulation 138, the following measuring instruments may be used without the user or supplier being compelled to submit the instrument to type approval in terms of section 22 or to comply with the provisions of section 24 of the Act—

(a) an instrument being automatic or non-automatic, used to determine the quantity of goods in prepackaged form in consumer and non-consumer packages as defined in SANS 289 and in a measurement unit of mass or volume or by number;
(b) an instrument being automatic or non-automatic, used to determine the quantity of goods in prepackaged form in consumer packages as defined in SANS 289 and in a measurement unit other than mass or volume or by number; or
(c) an automatic instrument used to determine the quantity of goods in prepacked form in non-consumer packages as defined in SANS 289 and in a measurement unit other than mass or volume or by number.