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

Regulations

Legal Metrology Regulations, 2017

Part VI : Requirements for marking of prepackages and prescribed quantities

23. Standard temperature for sale of prepackaged liquid products

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(1) The statement of quantity on prepackaged liquid products packed by volume, other than on the retail premises, from which they are sold, must reflect the volume at a temperature of 20⁰C unless otherwise prescribed in these regulations or SANS 289, as amended.

 

(2) The represented volume of a quantity of a liquid product packed by volume on the retail premises, from which it is sold, must be the volume at the ambient temperature at which it is measured unless such volume has been converted to the volume at 20⁰C.