Cap. 454 Art. 13Metrological control of product quantities and pre- packages delivered or exposed for sale.

(1) Where a transaction may involve the delivery of a definite quantity of a product or an offer for sale involving the indication or labelling of a definite quantity of the product, these product quantities may be subject to metrological controls.

(2) The Institute may, from time to time, establish requirements relating to the control methods and the metrological conditions with which quantities of products and pre-packages must comply, and may define permissible tolerances or variations on quantities.

(3) Any person who, for the purposes of trade or business, sells, buys or offers to buy, delivers or causes to be delivered, any goods by weight, by quantity, by number of items or by any other measure, which does not satisfy the requirements established under this article or any other provision of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence. purposes of this Act and for any other purposes of law shall be those listed in the First Schedule. Such units shall be used for all transactions which directly or indirectly involve a measurement.

(2) The only lawfully permissible linear, capacity and weight standard measures that may be used for any prescribed purpose shall be those set out in the Second Schedule.

(3) For all purposes of law, the conversion of a unit of measurement listed in the First Schedule to another unit of measurement not so listed shall be calculated on the basis of the tables of equivalence laid down in the Third Schedule.

(4) The Fourth Schedule shall be used in the interpretation and application of the provisions of the First Schedule.