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Weights and Measures (Amendment) Law (No. 24 of 1974) - Sect 8

Amendment of section 15 of the principal enactment*

8. Section 15 of the principal enactment, as amended by Act No. 7 of 1971, is hereby further amended as follows:-
(1) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following new subsection:- -
" (2) The Minister shall, once at least In each period of fifteen years, cause such Sri Lanka standards as he deems necessary, equivalent to the units of measurement defined in the First Schedule, to be verified at a specified standards laboratory:
(2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (2) of that section, of the following new subsection: -
" (3) Any Sri Lanka standard other than a standard verified under subsection (2) shall be verified by the Warden once in every ten years after its first verification by comparison with a Sri Lanka standard specified in section 14.".


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