PART 8
AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL METROLOGY SERVICE
36. Powers of inspection of Director, and other officers
The Director or the Deputy Director or any inspector may at any reasonable time enter any factory, shop, store, warehouse, shed, land, vehicle or premises in which any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument is or is suspected to be kept or used for the purpose of any trade, or any article or goods are offered or exposed for sale and may—
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(a) search for, or require the person for the time being in charge thereof to produce for inspection, all or any of the weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments kept therein;
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(b) inspect any weight or measure which is found therein or produced for examination, and compare it with a working standard of that weight or measure;
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(c) inspect and test any weighing or measuring instrument which is found therein or produced for examination;
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(d) seize and detain for the purpose of a prosecution for an offence under this Act or any other written law any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument which is found upon such comparison or test to be incorrect, or which appears to the inspector to have been or likely to be used in contravention of any provision of this Act or such other written law, as the case may be;
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(e) inspect and weigh or inspect and measure, any article or goods which are therein kept, offered or exposed for sale in order to ascertain whether the provisions of this Act are being complied with in respect of such article or goods and seize and detain any article or goods in respect of which or in relation to which a contravention of any provisions of this Act has been or is suspected to have been committed;
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(f) require the production of all books, accounts or documents relating to goods therein and inspect and copy any of these books, accounts or documents;
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(g) take such samples of any goods therein as may be reasonably required by him or her for the proper performance of his or her duties.