Section 6: Certificate of suitability
consolidated text (as at 1994). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
6. Certificate of suitability
(1) No person shall import or manufacture a weighing instrument which
is meant for trade use without a certificate of suitability relating to the pattern or design of the instrument.
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(2) An application for a certificate of suitability shall be made in writing
to the Minister, giving full particulars of the pattern or design of the weighing
instrument, and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) The Minister may, where he is satisfied that the pattern or design of
the weighing instrument is suitable for use in trade, grant the application and
issue a certificate on such conditions as he may deem fit.
(4) Where the Minister is satisfied that—
(a) the weighing instrument in respect of which a certificate has
been granted is no more suitable for use in trade; or
(b) the holder of the certificate has committed any breach of the
conditions attached to it,
he may revoke the certificate.
[S. 6 amended by Act 39 of 1989; Act 1 of 1994.]