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Falsifying weight,
measure, etc.
Penalty for
- fraud in use
of weight,
measure, etc.
t:
Penalty on
sale of false weight,
No. 2 of 1885.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, weighing-yard, or weighing-machine, found on such premises, and to seize any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, weighing-yard, or weighing-machine which appears to him to be false or unjust.
6. Every person who-
(1) falsifies or wilfully injures any copy or model of a standard weight or measure deposited with the Captain Superintendent of Police; or
(2) uses, or has in his possession for use, any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, weighing-yard, or weighing-machine which is false or unjust,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars in addition to any other penalty or liability to which such person may be subject in respect of such offence.
7. Where any fraud is wilfully committed in using any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, weighing-yard, or weighing-machine, the person committing such fraud, and every person party to the fraud, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and further, the weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, weighing-yard, or weighing-machine shall be liable to be forfeited.
8. Every person who wilfully or knowingly makes or sells, or causes to be made or sold, any false or unjust weight, measure, etc. measure, scale, balance, steelyard, weighing-yard, or weighing-machine, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Forfeiture of weights and....
measures.
Saving, as measures for dealing in medicines, etc.
to weights or
9. All weights and measures duly seized by an examiner of weights and measures shall be forfeited to the Crown.
10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to the buying or selling or dealing in medicines, or precious metals, or precious stones, or to weights or measures employed in relation thereto.
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923, and Law Am. Ord., 1923.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.