WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
No. 2 of 1885.
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(3) Such person shall defray all expenses of conveying his weight or measure to or from the Central Police Station, or shall deposit with the examiner of weights and measures one dollar if such weight or measure is on shore, or two dollars if it is on board a ship in the harbour, to defray such expenses.
4. The Governor shall appoint proper persons to be examiners of weights and measures, and may at pleasure remove any person so appointed.
5. It shall be the duty of an examiner of weights and measures to enter the business premises of any person who sells goods by weight or measure, and to examine any 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 Commissioner 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, scale, balance, steelyard, weighing-yard, or weighing-machine, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not...
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1937.