Legal Metrology Act, 2014 (Act No. 9 of 2014)Preamble |
Whereas it is desirable to—
• | promote fair trade and to protect public health and safety and the environment; |
• | provide for the implementation of a regulatory and compliance system for legal metrology by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications and for the administration and maintenance of legal metrology technical regulations; and |
• | provide for market surveillance by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications in order to ensure compliance with legal metrology technical regulations, |
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—