On 24/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 24/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 24/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 20/12/2005.
14. Section 14 of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting the words “weighing or measuring equipment” in subsections (1) and (3) and substituting in each case the words “weighing or measuring instrument”;
(b)
by deleting the word “equipment” in subsections (1) and (3) and substituting in each case the word “instrument”;
(c)
by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:
“(2) Without prejudice to the liability of any weighing or measuring instrument to be forfeited, it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under subsection (1) to show —
(a)
in respect of the use for trade of the weighing or measuring instrument, that —
(i)
he used the instrument only in the course of his employment by some other person; and
(ii)
he neither knew, nor had any reason to suspect, that the instrument was false or unjust; or
(b)
in respect of the use for trade or the possession for use for trade of the weighing or measuring instrument, that —
(i)
the use or possession of the instrument took place during a period of 12 months immediately following the month in which an Accuracy Label for the instrument was issued; and
(ii)
he neither knew, nor had any reason to suspect, that the instrument was false or unjust.”; and
(d)
by deleting the word “equipment” in the marginal note and substituting the word “instruments”.