(a)
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any weighing or measuring equipment which is
constructed or adapted to indicate any unit of
measurement other than an authorized unit;
(b)
any weighing or measuring equipment which is
false or defective,
commits an offence.
(2) Without prejudice to liability to forfeiture
under section 28, it shall be a defence for any person
charged with an offence under subsection (1)(b) in respect
of the use for trade of any weighing or measuring equipment
to show that
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(a)
he used the equipment only in the course of his
employment by some other person; and
(b)
he did not know and could not reasonably have
been expected to know that the equipment was
false or defective.
Prohibition
against
manufacture
or supply for
use for
trade of
weighing or
measuring equipment.
14. Subject to section 15, any person who
manufactures or supplies for use for trade any weighing or
measuring equipment which
(a) is false or defective; or