(1) If any person required by any customs enactment to provide scales, provides, uses or permits to be used any scales which do not give true reading, he or she commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
(2) Where any article is or is to be weighed, counted, gauged or measured for the purpose of the taking of an account or the making of an examination by an officer, then if—
(a) any such person as is mentioned in subsection (1); or
(b) any person by whom or on whose behalf the article is or is to be weighed, counted, gauged or measured,
does anything whereby the officer is or might be prevented from, or hindered or deceived in, taking a true account or making a due examination, he or she commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
(3) In this section, “scales” includes weights, measures and weighing or measuring machines or instruments.