Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) A person who uses
a measuring instrument for trade commits an offence unless —
(a) the
instrument bears an inspector’s mark or a licensee’s mark; and
(b) the
inspector’s mark or a licensee’s mark continues to have effect in
accordance with section 21(4) or (5), as the case may be.
Penalty:
(a) if
the measuring instrument is a weighbridge — $10 000;
(b) in
any other case — $5 000.
(2) A person who uses
a weighbridge for trade commits an offence if the weighbridge does not comply
with the requirements of the regulations concerning weighbridges.
Penalty: $10 000.
(3) This section does
not apply to the use of a measuring instrument to determine a quantity of
articles by number of the articles.
(4) The regulations
may provide for the circumstances in which the use for trade of a
measuring instrument that has been repaired or modified, or commissioned, is
permitted even though it does not bear an inspector’s mark or a
licensee’s mark, pending its verification or certification.