§ MR. JESSE COLLINGS (Birmingham, Bordesley)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether scales and other weighing instruments used in dockyards and other Government establishments are required to have the stamp of the Local Authority in which they are used in addition to the stamp of the Local Authority in which they were made; and, if not, whether such scales and weighing instruments are being used in violation of the provisions of the Act of 1889?
§ MR. MUNDELLAI have no information that scales and other weighing instruments used in dockyards and other Government establishments are required to be re-stamped as referred to in the question of the right hon. Member; and the Board of Trade are advised that the Weights and Measures Acts do not require weighing instruments which are the property of the Crown to be stamped by the Inspectors of Weights and Measures appointed by the Local Authorities.