Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1991 (NO. 57 OF 1991)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Trade Measurement (Administration) Act 1991.  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  
   4.      Incorporation of Trade Measurement Act 1991  

   PART II--ADMINISTRATION SUPERINTENDENT

   5.      (1) The Minister may, by instrument, appoint—  
   6.      Administering and licensing authorities  
   7.      Inspectors  
   8.      Certificates of authority  
   9.      Consent to entry of premises  

   PART III--FEES AND CHARGES FEE ON VERIFICATION OR RE-VERIFICATION OF

   10.     (1) The owner of a measuring instrument shall pay the appropriate fee prescribed under this Act upon the verification or re-verification of the instrument under the trade measurement legislation.  
   11.     Fees  
   12.     Power of Minister to make determination  

   PART IV--PROCEEDINGS PENALTY NOTICES

   13.     (1) The regulations may prescribe—  
   14.     Limitation of time for commencing prosecutions  

   PART V--MISCELLANEOUS SEARCH WARRANTS

   15.     (1) Where an information on oath is laid before a magistrate alleging that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there may be on any premises a thing of a particular kind connected with a particular offence against the trade measurement legislation, and the information sets out those grounds, the magistrate may issue a search warrant authorising an inspector named in the warrant, with such assistance and by such force as is necessary and reasonable—  
   16.     Access to and return of seized records  
   17.     Weights and Measures Act—transitional provisions  
   18.     Regulations