Legal Metrology Act, 2014 (Act No. 9 of 2014)RegulationsLegal Metrology Regulations, 2017Part XI : Measuring instruments and containers used for prescribed purposes66. Defacing of verification mark and authority for further use |
| (1) | When a market surveillance inspector or a verification officer finds that any measuring instrument is false, defective or inaccurate or does not meet any requirement of the Act or of any technical regulation, the market surveillance inspector or a verification officer must reject the measuring instrument and must deface any existing verification mark thereon by means of a rejection mark, provided that where there is no plug for a verification mark on the measuring instrument, the market surveillance inspector or a verification officer must place the rejection mark in the most visible position. |
| (2) | As contemplated in section 38(1)(t) of the Act, where a market surveillance inspector or a verification officer employed by the National Regulator has rejected any measuring instrument as set out in subregulation (1), for a reason other than its being false, defective, or inaccurate, the market surveillance inspector or a verification officer employed by the National Regulator may authorise the owner or user, in writing, to continue to use such measuring instrument for such reasonable period as the market surveillance inspector or a verification officer employed by the National Regulator may in the circumstances deem necessary. |