South Australian Repealed Acts South Australian Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) The Governor may
make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters—
(a)
required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b)
necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to
this Act.
(2) Without limiting
the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may make provision with
respect to the following:
(a) the
provision, maintenance, custody and care of standards of measurement;
(b)
regulating, prohibiting or restricting the use of measuring instruments for
trade;
(c)
limiting the purposes for which specified measuring instruments may lawfully
be used or specifying the measuring instruments required to be used for
specified purposes;
(d) the
verification, re-verification or certification of measuring instruments;
(e) the
positioning of, and access to, measuring instruments in order to facilitate
their use for trade, their examination by an inspector or licensee and their
verification, re-verification or certification;
(f) the
provision of, and payment and recovery of the costs of, labour, materials,
equipment and transportation necessary for the purpose of examining, testing,
verifying or re-verifying a measuring instrument;
(g) the
sealing of a certified, verified or re-verified measuring instrument;
(h)
batch testing and quality assurance in relation to measuring instruments and
the provision of labour, facilities and equipment for those purposes;
(i)
the provision or taking of samples of
measuring instruments and the testing of the samples;
(j)
conditionally or unconditionally conferring specified functions of an
inspector on a person who has similar functions under a corresponding law;
(k)
providing that the measurement of a specified article, or an article in a
specified state or condition, is the measurement of the article for the
purposes of this Act if it is carried out in a specified manner;
(l)
matters applicable to weighbridges, whether or not public weighbridges,
including their installation, functioning, operation, examination, testing,
suitability and use;
(m) the
functions of operators of public weighbridges;
(n)
certificates of suitability for public weighbridges, including their issue,
duration, suspension and cancellation and the keeping of a register of current
certificates of suitability by the administering authority;
(o)
prohibiting, regulating or restricting the sale of specified articles, or
articles of a specified class, by reference to measurement or a specified kind
or unit of measurement;
(p) the
manner of and procedure for determining specified measurements or specified
proportions of pre-packed articles;
(q)
standard specifications of capacity in relation to packages containing
specified pre-packed articles and the packing and sale of articles in those
packages;
(r) the
circumstances in which the mass of the package containing a specified article
may be included in determining the net mass of the article;
(s)
regulating the advertising of articles (including pre-packed articles) insofar
as the advertising relates to measurement;
(t)
prohibiting, regulating or restricting the sale of articles in relation to
which an offence has been committed under this Act or the regulations;
(u) the
keeping of records relating to measuring instruments.
(3) The regulations
may prescribe a penalty not exceeding $2 000 for any offence against the
regulations.
(3a) The regulations
may fix expiation fees, not exceeding $200, for alleged offences against the
regulations.
(4) A provision of a
regulation may—
(a)
apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified
exceptions or factors; or
(b)
apply differently, according to different factors of a specified kind; or
(c)
authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or
regulated by the administering authority or the licensing authority.