40. Saving

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2025. 2 amendments in all.

(1)

The Minister may by regulations prescribe the transactions in which, despite anything in this Act, it is lawful to use any unit of the local customary weights and measures as may be specified in the Third Schedule and having the values defined therein.

(2)

The Minister may by order amend the Third Schedule by removing any unit of measurement of length, of area, of volume, of capacity, or of mass or weight, as the case may be.

(3)

Where any weighing or measuring instrument was being used for trade immediately before 1 January 2006 in compliance with this Act in force immediately before that date —

(a)

nothing in section 7 prevents the continued use for trade of that weighing or measuring instrument even though it does not have an Accuracy Label affixed to it; and

(b)

subject to subsection (4), nothing in section 7A or 7B prevents the weighing or measuring instrument from being affixed with a stamp or Accuracy Label even though no letter of pattern approval has been issued in respect of that weighing or measuring instrument.

(4)

Subsection (3)(b) does not apply to any weighing or measuring instrument specified by the Commission in a notification published in the Gazette.

(5)

Any approval, appointment, order, notification or decision granted or made or anything done by the Board under this Act before the appointed date, which was valid immediately before that date, remains valid and continues on and after that date as if it were granted, made or done by the Commission, until such time the Commission invalidates, revokes, cancels or otherwise ceases the approval, appointment, order, notification or decision.

(6)

Any application made before the appointed date to the Board under section 29A(2) that is pending immediately before that date is deemed on and after that date to be an application made to the Commission under section 29A(2).

(7)

In this section —

“appointed date” means the date of commencement of section 11 of the Competition (Amendment) Act 2025;

“Board” means the Enterprise Singapore Board established by section 3 of the Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018.

Terms defined in this Act

Accuracy Label
Defined · s 2
“Accuracy Label” means a mark referred to in section 7(2)(d)(ii) for use as evidence of the passing of any weighing or measuring instrument as fit for use for trade;
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Board
Defined · s 2
“Board” means the Enterprise Singapore Board established by section 3 of the Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018;
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stamp
Defined · s 2
“stamp” means a mark referred to in section 7(2)(d)(i) for use as evidence of the passing of any weighing or measuring instrument as fit for use for trade;
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use for trade
Defined · s 5
“use for trade” means, subject to subsection (2), use in Singapore in connection with, or with a view to, a transaction for —(a)the transferring or rendering of money or money’s worth in consideration of money or money’s worth; or(b)the making of a payment in respect of any toll or duty,where —(c)the transaction is by reference to quantity or is a transaction for the purposes of which there is made or implied a statement of the quantity of goods to which the transaction relates; and(d)the use is for the purpose of the determination or statement of that quantity.(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where —(a)the determination or statement is a determination or statement of the quantity of goods required for despatch to a destination outside Singapore; and(b)no transfer or rendering of money or money’s worth is involved other than the passing of the title to the goods and the consideration therefor.(3) Any weighing or measuring instrument which is made available in Singapore for use by the public, whether on payment or otherwise, is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as weighing or measuring instrument in use for trade, whether or not it would apart from this subsection be so treated. For the purposes of this Act,
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weighing or measuring instrument
Defined · s 2
“weighing or measuring instrument” means an instrument for measuring in terms of length, area, volume, capacity, weight or number, whether or not the instrument is constructed to give an indication of the measurement made or other information determined by reference to that measurement, and includes any article used as a weighing or measuring instrument.
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Report

Read on from s 41

Schedules

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