Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT ACT 1991 (NO. 56 OF 1991) - SECT 21

21. A person is guilty of an offence if the person—

        (a)     has possession, without authority, of an instrument for making an inspector's mark or a licensee's mark;

        (b)     makes on a measuring instrument a mark resembling an inspector's mark or a licensee's mark intending to create a false impression that it is an inspector's mark or a licensee's mark;

        (c)     makes or possesses, without lawful justification or excuse, an instrument designed to make a mark resembling an inspector's mark or a licensee's mark; or

        (d)     sells, or uses for trade, a measuring instrument marked in contravention of paragraph (b) or section 20 knowing it to have been unlawfully marked.

Penalty: $20,000.

Measurement must be open to scrutiny in certain cases