Australian Capital Territory Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

TRADE MEASUREMENT (PREPACKED ARTICLES) REGULATION 1991 (REPEALED) - REG 12

    (1)     The required measurement marking must—

        (a)     be close to, and marked to be read in the same direction as, any name or brand of the article to which it relates; and

        (b)     be at least 2mm from the limits of the package and separated by at least 2mm in all directions from other graphic matter or copy; and

        (c)     be in a form in which units of measurement under the metric system are ordinarily written in the English language; and

        (d)     for a decimal submultiple—be preceded by a zero or other numeral.

    (2)     If a package is entirely or substantially cylindrical, spheroidal, conical or of oval cross-section, the measurement marking must, in addition to complying with subsection (1), be positioned so that no part of the marking is further than ¹ / 6 of the circumference of the package from the line that vertically bisects that part of the package where the marking is required to be made.

    (3)     For subsection (2), the circumference of a package is the circumference where the measurement marking is made.