Arrangement of Sections
5. Testing of other standards and equipment
6. Units of measurement, weights and measures lawful for use for trade
7. Weighing or measuring equipment for use for trade
8. Regulations relating to weighing or measuring for trade
9. Keepers of public equipment to hold certificate
10. Offences in connection with public equipments
11. Appointments of superintendent and other officers
12. Provision of weighing and measuring instruments for use by inspectors
13. Repair or adjustment of weights, etc
14. Examination of weights, etc
15. Additional functions by inspectors
16. General powers of inspection and sealing of premises
18. Offences by inspectors and others
19. Fraud in use of weights, etc
20. Refusal to produce weights, etc., an offence
21. Importation, etc., of unjust weights and measures
22. Forgery, etc., of stamp or mark
23. Sale of weights, etc., with forged stamp
24. Alteration of stamped or marked weight, etc
25. Delivery on sale by false weight, etc
27. Sale of bread not by net weight an offence
29. Sale of certain meat and fish not by net weight an offence
30. Use of false or unjust weights, etc
31. Refusal to weigh or measure goods delivered
33. Offences by bodies corporate
34. Loss by evaporation, etc., as a defence in special cases
35. Offence by person other than defendant
36. Exemption for sale in containers
38. Transactions to be in accordance with Act
39. Power to forfeit and dispose of certain weights, etc
40. Use of weights, etc., in relation to wages
41. Use of marked or stamped weights, etc
42. Presumption of possession of weight, etc
43. Power to make test purchases
44. Onus of proof of knowledge, etc., in any offence
45. Reference of certain cases to superintendent
PART IV
Supplementary
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Definitions of metric units of measurement
SECOND SCHEDULE
Existing Nigerian primary standards
THIRD SCHEDULE
Metric measures and weights lawful for use for trade
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