Clause 8

Where any pattern of weighing or measuring equipment is submitted to the Controller for the purpose by any person in such manner as may be prescribed, the Controller shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, examine in such manner as he thinks fit the suitability for use for trade of equipment of that pattern, having regard in particular to the principle, materials and methods used or proposed to be used in its construction, and if the Controller is satisfied that such equipment is suitable for use for trade, then, subject to section 9(2), he shall issue a certificate of approval of that pattern and cause particulars thereof to be published and may from time to time thereafter authorise such minor modifications thereof as he thinks fit and cause particulars of those modifications to be published:Provided that the requirements of this subsection as to the publication of the particulars of any pattern or modification shall not apply where the certificate of approval is issued subject to such a condition as is mentioned in subsection (2).

A certificate of approval under subsection (1) may be granted subject to a condition that, except with the consent of the Controller, equipment of the pattern in question shall be used for trade only for a specified period or only for a specified purpose; and if any person, knowing that such a condition has been imposed with respect to any equipment, uses, or causes or permits any other person to use, that equipment in contravention of that condition, or disposes of that equipment to any other person in a state in which it could be used for trade without informing that other person of that condition, he shall be guilty of an offence and the equipment shall be liable to be forfeited.

The Controller, after consultation with such persons appearing to him to be interested as he thinks fit, may at any time revoke any certificate or authorisation granted under this section, and shall cause notice of any such revocation to be published; and where the Controller so revokes any certificate or authorisation, then if any person, knowing that the certificate or authorisation has been revoked, and save as may be permitted by any fresh certificate or authorisation granted in respect thereof, uses for trade, or has in his possession for such use, or causes or permits any other person so to use, any equipment of the pattern or incorporating the modification in question, or disposes of any such equipment to any other person in a state in which it could be so used without informing that other person of the revocation he shall be guilty of an offence and the equipment shall be liable to be forfeited.

Any equipment of a pattern in respect of which a certificate of approval has been granted under this section may, and in such cases as may be prescribed, shall, be marked in the prescribed manner so as to identify it with the pattern in question.