WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I – Units and standards of measurement

1. Units of measurement.
2. Primary standards.
3. Nigerian trade standards.
4. Working standards.
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.

PART II – Administration

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.
17. Obstruction of inspectors.
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.
26. Misrepresentation.
27. Sale of bread not by net weight an offence.
28. Sale of pre-packed goods.
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.

PART III – Miscellaneous and general

32. Avoidance of sale.
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.
37. Saving for civil remedies.
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.
46. Limitation of actions.

PART IV – Supplementary

47. Regulations.
48. Fees.
49. Penalties.
50. Restriction on operation of Act.
51. Interpretation.
52. Exclusive use of metric units.
53. Short title.

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

Fourth Schedule – Form of certificate of verification

Fifth Schedule – Table of fees

Sixth Schedule – Definitions of units of measurement of imperial units

Seventh Schedule – Imperial measures and weights lawful for use for trade

Eighth Schedule  – Standard metric quantities for pre-packed goods

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CHAPTER W3

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT

An Act to repeal the Weights and Measures Act 1962 and re-enact that Act with additional provisions to facilitate the change-over to the metric system.

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