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• Weights and Measures 
• PART I Preliminary
  • 1 Short title
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Standards of Weights and Measures
  • 3 Standards
  • 4 Use of Weights
  • 5 National Standards of Weights and Measures
  • 6 Custody of National Standards
  • 7 Secondary Standards
  • 8 Working Standards
  • 9 Periodic verification of National Standards
• PART III Inspectors of Weights and Measures
  • 10 Appointment of inspectors
  • 11 Verification of weights and measures by Inspectors
  • 12 Certification of weights etc.
  • 13 Power to enter premises and to seize weights and measures
  • 14 Prohibition of adjustment
• PART IV General
  • 15 Duty to have weights and measures marked with their proper determination
  • 16 Sale of goods by weight or measurement
  • 17 Sale of prepackaged goods by weight or measurement
  • 18 Use of carat (metric)
  • 19 Regulations
• PART V Offences and Proceedings
  • 20 Failure to weigh or measure when selling goods if so required
  • 21 Sales on authorised denominations
  • 22 Use of non-certified weights, etc.
  • 23 Use of false or unjust weights, etc.
  • 24 Fraud in use of weights, etc.
  • 25 Forgery etc.
  • 26 Selling, etc. weights, etc. with forged or counterfeited stamps of verification or certificates of justness
  • 27 Making or selling unjust weights, etc.
  • 28 Obstructing Inspectors, etc. in the performance of their duties
  • 29 Costs
  • 30 Forfeitures
  • 31 Evidence as to possession
  • 32 Inspector stamping without verification
  • 33 Prohibition of giving short weight, measure or number
  • 34 Defence of mistake, accident, etc.
  • 35 Penalties
  • 36 Expenses