111 Weights And Measures

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 111.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

AN ACT FOR THE PREVENTION OF ABUSES BY THE USE OF FALSE OR INSUFFICIENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

[22nd March 1871.] 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Weights and Measures Act.

2. In this Act, unless 'the context otherwise requires'Minister' means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the administration of this Act.

3. It shall be lawful for the Minister to import or otherwise procure a sufficient number of proper scales, weights and measures of the standard heretofore in use in the Colony, and to have the same properly stamped or marked to designate them as public property, one set of which shall be delivered to, and shall continue in charge of, the Commissioner of Police, at the police station in the City of Nassau, one other set of which shall be delivered to the commissioner at Dunmore Town, Harbour Island; one other set to the commissioner at Matthew Town Inagua; one other set to the commissioner at Green Turtle Cay, Abaco; and one other set to each of such other commissioners at the other Out Islands as may satisfy the Minister that standard scales, weights and measures are required for public use within their respective districts.

4. The scales, weights and measures in the charge of the Commissioner of Police on the thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty two, shall be considered, held and taken to represent and be the standard scales, weights and measures of the Colony;

   and it shall not be lawful for any person to sell any article whatever usually sold by weight or measurement by any other scales, weights or measures than such as correspond with the scales, weights and measures by 7 of 1871.

   8 of 1904.

   20 of 1932.

   G.N. 7 of 1964.

   Short title.

   Interpretation.

   G.N. 7 of 1964.

   Minister to procure scales, weights and measures of the standard heretofore in use in the Colony.

   G.N. 7 of 1964.

   Standard scales and measures the only lawful ones.

   20 of 1932, s. 2.

   Officers to test the accuracy of all scales, weights and measures once a month.

   False weights and measures to be forfeited.

   Measurement of salt bags provided for.

   this Act declared to be the standard scales, weights and measures, under a penalty of not less than two pounds or more than ten pounds for each offence.

5. In New Providence it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Police, and at the Out Islands, of the respective commissioners, to cause some officer, or other member of the police force, to...