Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1968
Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1968
Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1968
Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1968
Public Act |
1968 No 118 |
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Date of assent |
13 December 1968 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Weights and Measures Act 1925
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1968, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Weights and Measures Act 1925 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Fines increased
The principal Act (as amended by section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) is hereby amended in the manner indicated in the Schedule to this Act.
3 Goods to be sold by net weight or measure
Section 18 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (4), and substituting the following subsections:
“(4)
The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations exempting any goods or class of goods from all or any of the provisions of this section.
“(4a)
This section shall not apply to any goods exposed for sale or sold by weight in a package if—
“(a)
The weight of the goods is subject to variation by reason of climatic influences; and
“(b)
The package bears a conspicuous label or inscription showing the words ‘Net weight when packed’, together with such weight.”
Schedule Amendments to Weights and Measures Act 1925
Section 2
| Section Amended | Amendment |
|---|---|
| Section 4 | By omitting from subsection (3) the words “twenty dollars”, and substituting the words “fifty dollars”. |
| Section 13 | By omitting the words “one hundred dollars”, and substituting the words “two hundred dollars”. |
| Section 14 | By omitting from subsection (1) the words “twenty dollars”, and substituting the words “fifty dollars”. |
| Section 18 | By omitting from subsection (5) the words “one hundred dollars”, and substituting the words “two hundred dollars”. |
| Section 19 | By omitting from subsection (1) (as substituted by section 7 of the Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1933) and also from subsection (7) the words “one hundred dollars”, and substituting in each case the words “two hundred dollars”. |
| Section 22 | By omitting the words “twenty dollars”, and substituting the words “fifty dollars”. |
| Section 27 | By omitting the words “twenty dollars”, and substituting the words “fifty dollars”. |
| Section 33 | By omitting from subsection (1) the words “two hundred dollars”, and substituting the words “five hundred dollars”. |
| Section 34 | By omitting from subsection (1) the words “twenty dollars”, and substituting the words “one hundred dollars”. |
| Section 39 | By omitting from paragraph (w) of subsection (1) the words “forty dollars”, and substituting the words “one hundred dollars”. |
This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.