Weights and Measures Act Amendment Act 1976 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

No. 3 of 1976.

AN ACT to amend the Weights and Measures

Act, 1915-1974.

[Assented to 25th May, 1976.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Weights and atat,?)..

Measures Act Amendment Act, 1976.

No. 3.] Weights and Measures. [1976.

Reprinted as

approved for (2) In this Act the Weights and Measures Act,

July, 1971	reprint 21st 1915-1974 is referred to as the principal Act.
and amended
by Acts Nos.
31 of 1973
and (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act
4 of 1974. may be cited as the Weights and Measures Act, 1915-1976.
Section 52
amended. 2. Section 52 of the principal Act is amended by adding after paragraph (v) the following paragraph-

(va) Requiring the prescribed units of measurement to be used in the sale and in the offering, exposing and advertising for sale, of prescribed goods or articles or classes of goods or articles, either in specified parts of the State or generally throughout the State. .