Trade Malpractices (Miscellaneous Offences) Act

Arrangement of Sections

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An Act to create certain offences relating to trade malpractices.

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Trade malpractices offences

of this Act, any person who-

that is false or misleading or is likely to create a wrong impression as to its

quality, character, brand name, value, composition, merit or safety; or

for use any weight, measure, weighing instrument or measuring instrument

which is false or unjust; or

for use, any weight, measure, weighing instrument or measuring instrument

not stamped or marked as required under the Weights and Measures Act or any

other law in respect of which no certificate of verification is in force; or

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other public place and refuses to weigh or measure the product in the presence

of the person to whom the product was delivered when requested to do so by that person; or

measuring instrument stamped or marked pursuant to the Weights and Measures Act or uses

in any sale, contract or other dealing, any such altered weight, measure, weighing instrument or

measuring instrument; or

( f ) sells any products by weight, measure or number and delivers or causes to be

delivered to the purchaser a less weight, measure or number, as the case may

be, than is purported to be sold or corresponds with the price charged; or

makes any misrepresentation howsoever or does or omits to do any act, matter

or thing calculated or likely to mislead the seller or purchaser or prospective

seller or purchaser, as the case may be, as to its weight or measure or as to the