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Weights and Measures (Amendment) Law (No. 24 of 1974) - Sect 7

Replacement of section 14 of the principal enactment

7. Section 14 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section is substituted therefor:-
14.
(1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Minister may from time to time procure such standards of the units of measurement as he may consider necessary.
(2) Every standard; of any unit of measurement procured under subsection ' (1) shall be the equivalent of a unit of measurement defined in the First or Second Schedule hereto or any multiple or sub-multiple of any such unit of measurement, and shall be made of such materials and in such manner as to be, as far as practicable, proof against mechanical and atmospheric agencies and other sources of error.
(3) A description of every standard of any unit of measurement procured under subsection (1) shall be published in the Gazette on a direction by the Warden.
(4) Every standard of any unit of measurement procured under subsection (1) shall be verified and authenticated at a specified standards laboratory before such standard Is brought into use in Sri Lanka.
(5) The Minister may by notification In the Gazette declare that a standard of any unit of measurement, which has been procured and verified under this section, shall be brought into use in Sri Lanka and such standard shall upon such notification become a Sri Lanka standard and shall for all purposes whatsoever be conclusively presumed to be true and accurate.".

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