Section 17: Examination, stamping and adjusting of equipment

by inspector and certificate of verification (1) An inspector shall examine and shall test by means of such secondary or working standards and testing equipment as he or she considers appropriate any weighing or measuring equipment which is brought or submitted to him or her and, subject to this Act and any rules made under section 22, and to the payment by the person submitting the equipment of the fee prescribed by rules made under this Act, the inspector shall- (a) if the equipment falls within the limits of error prescribed by rules made under this Act, pass it as fit for use for trade and, subject to subsection (5) cause it to be stamped; but except as otherwise expressly provided by or under this Act, no weight or measure shall be stamped unless it has been marked in the manner prescribed by rules made under this Act with its purported value; (b) if the equipment does not fall within the prescribed limits of error, reject it as unfit for use for trade and shall deface any stamp which the equipment might bear. (2) An inspector may, subject to the consent of the person submitting the equipment and to the payment by that person of the fee prescribed by rules made under this Act, adjust any weight or measure of capacity or weighing equipment which has been rejected as unfit for use for trade so as to bring the article of equipment within the prescribed limits of error; and he or she shall thereafter proceed as in subsection (1). (3) An inspector shall cause to be given to every person submitting weighing or measuring equipment a certificate of verification in the form set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act, or to the like effect, and the certificate shall indicate all weighing or measuring equipment which has been stamped, rejected or adjusted, as the case may be, for the same person on the same occasion. (4) An inspector shall cause to be kept a record of every examination and test of weighing or measuring equipment which is carried out by him or her under this section. (5) The requirements of this section with respect to stamping and marking shall not apply to any weight or measure which is too small to be stamped or marked in accordance with those requirements.