§ 113. Sir A. BUTTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the public apprehension that the spring balances used in retail shops are unreliable, these balances are tested by inspectors of weights and measures; and whether the Statutes against false weights are applicable to them equally with the older patterns of scales?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)All weighing instruments for use in trade, whatever their character, are required to be verified and stamped by an Inspector of Weights and Measures before being brought into use and are thereafter subject to inspection at any time, to ascertain that they are still correct within the limits of permissible error laid down in the Regulations issued by the Board of Trade under the provisions of Section 5 of the Weights and Measures Act, 1904.