Section 5
Section 5
(1)
An inspector may at any reasonable time and, if requested, on production of his credentials —
(a)
enter any premises, aircraft, vessel or vehicle, and for such purpose stop any aircraft, vessel or vehicle, wherein any goods are kept or exposed for sale or wherein or in connection with which weighing or measuring equipment is used for trade or wherein in connection with which the inspector reasonably suspects that any goods are kept or exposed for sale or weighing or measuring equipment is used for trade;
(b)
examine and test any weights, measures, weighing equipment or measuring instruments that may be used for trade;
(c)
weigh or measure, or cause to be weighed or measured, in the presence of a person in charge of the same any goods kept or exposed for sale or in course of sale;
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(d)
seize and detain any goods, weights, measures, weighing equipment or measuring equipment which he finds to be not in accordance with this Act;
(e)
if he has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Act has been committed, may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it has been committed, require any person carrying on a trade or business or employed in connection with a trade or business to produce any books or documents relating to the trade or business and may take copies of, or any entry in, any such book or document; and
(f)
may seize and detain any goods, books or documents which he has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings for an offence against this Act.
(2)
An inspector entering any premises, vessel or vehicle by virtue of this Act may take with him such other persons and such equipment as may appear to him necessary to perform his duties under this
Act.
(3)
All weighing or measuring equipment, books, documents and goods seized under this section shall, if a court so directs, be forfeited and disposed of as the court may direct.
(4)
Every person who wilfully obstructs or impedes any inspector or person with him by virtue of subsection (2) in the performance of his duty under this Act or who refuses without reasonable cause to produce and deliver any book, document, or weighing or measuring equipment in use for trade when required so to do by an inspector or, without reasonable cause, fails to give an inspector any other assistance or information which the inspector may reasonably require for the purposes of this Act is guilty of an offence an liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for 6 months.
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