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

Regulations

Legal Metrology Regulations, 2017

Part XI : Measuring instruments and containers used for prescribed purposes

76. Testing of weighing instruments for error

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(a) Except as otherwise provided in any technical regulation, before any weighing instrument is tested for errors, the weighing instrument must be properly balanced at zero load in accordance with the appropriate provisions of regulation 68; and
(b) except as otherwise provided in a technical regulation and as far as is practicable a weighing instrument must be tested for errors at loads from zero up to its capacity.