Measurement Units, Standards And Service Act (No. 35 of 1995)

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Measurement Units, Standards And Service Act (No. 35 of 1995) - Sect 60

Regulations

60.

(1) The Minister may make regulations for matters required by the Act to be prescribed and for matters in. respect of which regulations are authorized by this Act to be made.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations in respect of all or any of the following matters :-

	(a) the tests required to be passed by any person is order to be appointed as an inspector under subsection (3) of section 14;

	(b) the custody and preservation of the Sri Lanka standards, reference standards, secondary and tertiary standards ;

	(c) the manner in which reference standards, secondary and tertiary standards shall be authenticated and verified ;

	(d) the specifications for tertiary standards and the manner in which such standards shall be kept and preserved ;

	(e) the procedure for the examination and stamping of secondary and tertiary standards, and the periodical identification of weighing and measuring instruments provided for use by inspectors;

	(f) the requirements as to the composition, form and specification of weights, measures and weighing and measuring instruments and the prohibition of the manufacture or use of weights, measuring and weighing and measuring instruments which do not conform to such requirements;

(g) the inspection, verification and stamping by inspectors of weights, measures and weighing and measuring instruments, the tests to be applied for the purpose of ascertaining the accuracy and efficiency of weights and measures, the form and design of stamps to be used by inspectors the manner in which such stamps shall be used and the circumstances in which such stamps shall be used and the circumstances ill which such stamping shall be prohibited ;

	(h) the limits of error to be allowed on verification and to be tolerated on inspection and on pattern approval of weights, measure and weighting and measuring instruments, either generally or as respects any trade ;

	(i) the rules, tests, procedures and inferences permitted in respect of packaged goods, the content of which are marked by long, volume or weight ;

	(j) physical contents and their corresponding numbered values that should be used for all purposes ;

	(k) methods of determination of the value of such attributes of colour and hardness used for industrial purposes ;

	(l) Circumstances and conditions under which the persons by whom and the manner in which marks of verification may be obliterated or defaced ;

	(m) the fees to charged by inspectors for the examination, verification of weights, measures and weighing and measuring instruments and the cost of verification and examination ;

	(n) the manner in which the methods for celebrating different instruments should be determined and established ; and

	(o) all matters incidental to are connected with the matters or subjects specifically referred to in this subsection ;

(3) Every regulation made by the minister shall be published in the gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication on or such latter date as may be specified in the regulation

(4) Every regulation made by the minister shall as soon as convenient after its publications in the gazette, be brought before parliament for its approval. Every regulation which is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of such disapproval but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.

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