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| Legal Metrology - Consultation & Training |
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SUPPORT SERVICES
NRCS provides support and advice in the areas of:
- Legal Metrology policies
- Interpretation
of requirements of the Trade Metrology Act and Regulations and
Measuring Units and National Measuring Standards Regulations
- Training
of Legal Metrology inspectors and ad hoc training of provincial
officials requiring a knowledge of the Trade Metrology Act and
Regulations
- New legislation including technical regulations and requirements
- SADCMEL activities including drafting of regional standards and secretariat
- OIML Recommendations
- Issues “Certificate of Authority” to enable facilities to verify to SANS10378.
- Assessors are provided to SANAS for the assessment of SANS10378 accredited facilities.
- Examination and registration of verification officers.
VERIFICATION OFFICER EXAMINATIONS
No
courses (training) are offered by Legal Metrology to qualify as
verification officers (VO’s). Self-study and in house training by the
accredited facility is required.
The syllabus for the different instrument examination papers is available from Legal Metrology. (See contact details).
The examinations consist of three parts:
Part I – The Trade Metrology Act is a closed book, multi choice answer (monkey puzzle), examination.
Part
II –The question papers cover the instrument(s) that the candidate(s)
wish to qualify for and are an open book examination, they may take a
copy of the relevant regulations or specification(s) with them into the
examination room.
Part III – The candidates have to perform a practical verification of the instrument(s) they wish to qualify for.
The pass mark for Part I and II is 60%.
Examinations
for Part I and II may be written, by appointment only, on the first
Friday of every month, at the NRCS, Pretoria (SABS campus) and NRCS
regional offices in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein and Durban.
The evaluation is performed by appointment with one of the regional offices.
EXAMINATION FEES
Please contact Paul Nelmapius for examination fees.
The re-write of failed examinations on any one of the three parts will be allowed only one month later.
If
the examination is failed for a second time, a re-write will only be
allowed three months later, unless proof is provided that training by
an expert took place.
On successful completion of all three parts of the examination, a VO. certificate is issued to the candidate.
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