On 22/05/2013,
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incorporating all amendments published on or before 22/05/2013.
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8.
—(1) Any importer or manufacturer who intends, in the course of any trade or business, to supply in Singapore any weighing or measuring instrument to which section 7 applies shall —
(a)
submit in such manner as the Controller may require the pattern of that instrument to the Controller for examination, together with such fee as may be prescribed; and
(b)
obtain from the Controller a letter of pattern approval signifying the suitability of that instrument for use for trade.
(2) Any importer or manufacturer who, in the course of any trade or business, supplies in Singapore any weighing or measuring instrument in respect of which a letter of pattern approval from the Controller has not been obtained shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Upon receipt of the pattern of a weighing or measuring instrument and any prescribed fee under subsection (1), the Controller shall, in such manner as may be prescribed, examine the suitability for use for trade of the pattern of the weighing or measuring instrument, having regard in particular to the principle, materials and methods used or proposed to be used in its construction.
(4) If, upon completion of the examination under subsection (3), the Controller is satisfied that the weighing or measuring instrument examined is suitable for use for trade, then, subject to section 9(2), he —
(a)
shall issue a letter of pattern approval of that pattern and cause particulars thereof to be published; and
(b)
may from time to time thereafter authorise such minor modifications thereof as he thinks fit and cause particulars of those modifications to be published.
(5) The requirements of subsection (4) as to the publication of the particulars of any pattern or modification shall not apply where the letter of pattern approval is issued subject to such a condition as is referred to in subsection (6).
(6) A letter of pattern approval issued under subsection (4) may be granted subject to a condition that, except with the consent of the Controller, the weighing or measuring instrument of the pattern approval in question shall be used for trade only for a specified period or a specified purpose.
(7) Any person who, knowing that a condition referred to in subsection (6) has been imposed with respect to any weighing or measuring instrument —
(a)
uses, or causes or permits any other person to use, that instrument in contravention of that condition; or
(b)
disposes of that instrument to any other person in a state in which it could be used for trade without informing that other person of that condition,
shall be guilty of an offence and the instrument shall be liable to be forfeited.
(8) The Controller, after consultation with such person appearing to him to be interested as he thinks fit, may at any time revoke any letter of pattern approval or authorisation granted under this section, and shall cause notice of any such revocation to be published.
(9) Where the Controller has revoked any letter of pattern approval or authorisation under subsection (8), any person who, knowing that the letter of pattern approval or authorisation has been revoked, and except as may be permitted by any fresh letter of pattern approval or authorisation granted in respect thereof —
(a)
uses for trade, or has in his possession for such use, or causes or permits any other person so to use, any weighing or measuring instrument of the pattern or incorporating the modification in question; or
(b)
disposes of any such instrument to any other person in a state in which it could be so used without informing that other person of the revocation,
shall be guilty of an offence and the instrument shall be liable to be forfeited.
(10) Any weighing or measuring instrument of a pattern in respect of which a letter of pattern approval has been granted under this section may, and in such cases as may be prescribed, shall, be marked in such manner as may be prescribed so as to identify it with the pattern in question.