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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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40. Forgery of stamp or mark used by inspectors etc.

Any person who—

(a) forges or counterfeits any stamp or mark provided under this Act for the use of inspectors in stamping weights or measures or weighing or measuring instruments;

(b) makes, uses, sells, exposes for sale, utters or otherwise disposes of any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument bearing any stamp or mark which he or she knows to be false, forged or counterfeited;

(c) removes any mark which has been stamped by an inspector on any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument and inserts such mark on any other weight, measure or weighing or measuring instrument; or

(d) increases or diminishes a weight or measure which has been stamped or certified by an inspector under this Act, or tampers with a weighing or measuring instrument which has been so stamped, or uses, sells, exposes for sale, utters for sale, keeps in his or her possession for use in a trade or otherwise disposes of any weight or measure which he or she knows to be so increased, diminished or false or any weighing or measuring instrument which he or she knows to be tampered with,

commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term of 6 months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

40. Forgery of stamp or mark used by inspectors etc.

2. Interpretation

5. Verification of primary standards

6. Declaration of Saint Lucia's primary standards

7. Periodic verification of Saint Lucia's primary standards

8. Secondary standards and periodic calibration

9. Cancellation etc. of secondary standards

10. Verification and authentication of working standards

11. Judicial notice of standards

12. Custodian of Saint Lucia standards

13. Use of authorised units for all purposes

14. Exemption of export goods

15. Weighing and measuring equipment

16. Use of authorised denominations of weights and measures

17. Use of weighing or measuring instruments

18. Prohibition on sale and use of weights, measures and measuring instruments

19. Seller to weigh or measure article if required

20. Verification of weighing and measuring equipment

21. Periodic examination of weights and measuring instruments

22. Stamping of mark of verification

23. Legal status of weights etc. stamped by inspectors

24. Pattern approval of weighing and measuring equipment

25. Prohibition of sale etc. of weights and measures

26. Sale to be by net weight or measure

27. Pre-packaged goods

28. National Metrology Service

29. Designation of Director and Deputy Director of Standards

30. Designation of inspectors

31. Use of unstamped standards, etc., by inspectors

32. Inspectors not to derive profit from selling etc. of weights and measures

33. Disposal of fees

34. Registers to be kept by inspectors

35. Inspectors to give security

36. Powers of inspection of Director, and other officers

37. Use of unmarked weights or measures

38. Sale of unstamped weights and measures

39. Use and possession of unstamped weights and measures

41. Use or possession of incorrect weights and measures

42. False, incorrect or untrue declaration or statement, etc.

43. Deceptive packaging

44. Use of false weight or measure

45. Importing or packing of pre-packaged goods

46. Selling of unmarked pre-packaged goods

47. Repair or manufacture of weights and measures without licence

48. Refusal to produce weight etc., for inspection

49. Breach by inspectors

50. General penalty

51. Forfeiture of weights and measures

52. Evidence of Possession

53. Principal, liable for offences of servants and agents

54. Offences committed by body of persons

55. Police assistance

57. Regulations

58. Amendment of schedules

59. Settlement of disputes

60. Certificate of director or deputy director to be prima facie evidence

3. Principal system of measurement

4. Primary standards to be legal units