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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