Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 18HE

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person sells an article (whether packed in advance ready for sale or otherwise) or a utility for a price determined by reference to measurement of the article or utility; and

  (b)   the regulations prescribe scale intervals for measuring instruments used in the measurement of the article or utility, or articles or utilities of that class; and

  (c)   the price is not a price determined by reference to a measurement of the article or utility using a measuring instrument of those scale intervals.

Penalty:   40 penalty units.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability, see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

  (3)   Section   15.2 (extended geographical jurisdiction--category B) of the Criminal Code applies to an offence against subsection   (1).