Section 18: Period of validity of stamp

(1) The Minister may by rules prescribe a period of time during which any stamp which is affixed on weighing or measuring equipment of any specific class or type or which is affixed on weighing or measuring equipment in use for any specific trade or purpose shall be in force; but any period so prescribed shall not be less that one year or more than three years reckoned from the last day of the month in which the stamp was affixed. (2) At the expiry of any period prescribed under this section, or at the expiry of three years in a case where no period has been prescribed, any stamp so affixed shall be invalid, and the weighing or measuring equipment bearing the stamp shall be deemed not to have been passed as fit for use for trade. (3) Subject to section 15(1) and to this section, a stamp affixed on any weighing and measuring equipment shall be valid throughout Uganda.