Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT 1915 - SECT 27E

27E .         Packages, etc., to be marked with particulars of the quantity of the articles contained therein

        (1)         A person shall not, on or after the appointed day, pack for sale, or cause, permit, or suffer to be packed for sale, an article of any description to which this section applies unless the package containing the article is marked, in accordance with the regulations —

            (a)         with a statement of the true weight or measure of the article; and

            (b)         with such statement of particulars as may be prescribed by the regulations.

        Penalty: For a first offence, $400; for a second or subsequent offence, $800.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), the appointed day in relation to articles of any particular description is such day as the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette , declare to be the appointed day in relation to articles of that description —

            (a)         as regards the statement of the true weight or measure of the article; or

            (b)         as regards such other particulars as may be prescribed; or

            (c)         as regards both such statement and such other particulars.

        (3)         A person shall not, on or after the appointed day, sell an article of any description to which this section applies unless the package in which the article is contained is marked as required by subsection (1).

        Penalty: For a first offence $400; for a second or subsequent offence, $800.

        (4)         For the purposes of subsection (3), the appointed day in relation to articles of any particular description is such day as the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette , declare to be the appointed day in relation to articles of that description —

            (a)         as regards the statement of the true weight or measure of the article; or

            (b)         as regards such other particulars as may be prescribed; or

            (c)         as regards both such statement and such other particulars.

        (5)         Nothing in subsection (3) prohibits the sale, pursuant to a permit under section 27F, of an article to which the permit relates;

        (6)         An order made by the Minister under this section may declare different days as the appointed day in relation to articles of different descriptions and different days in respect of any article for the purposes of paragraph (a) and of paragraph (b), respectively, of subsection (1), but a day so declared shall be a day not earlier than one year after the date of coming into operation of this section and not earlier than the day on which the order is published in the Gazette .

        (7)         Notwithstanding any other Act relating to the marking of a package containing an article with particulars of the weight or measure of the article, on and after the date of the passing of the Weights and Measures Act Amendment Act 1967 ¹ , a person may pack for sale, or cause, permit, or suffer to be packed for sale, or sell, an article of any description to which this section applies, if the package in which the article is contained is marked in accordance with subsection (1).

        (8)         This section applies to articles of such descriptions as may be prescribed.

        [Section 27E inserted by No. 34 of 1967 s.16; amended by No. 64 of 1978 ss.5 and 11.]