(Note definitions referred in Annex A)

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Please tick the nature of application by your establishment: *Select your type of entity: *

Manufacture	Import	Sell	Supply	None
Measuring instrument	☐	☐	☐	☐
Products	☐	☐	☐	☐	☐
Services	☐	☐	☐

Are the measuring instruments used, possessed, manufactured, or imported in a manner to obtain measurement results in the field of – *

Trade	☐	Health	☐	Safety	☐	Environment	☐
Any other measurement of a legal nature	☐	The expression of the quantity of any product	☐
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ANNEX A

Section 11

Registration of importers, manufacturers and persons who offer for sale any prescribed measuring instrument, product or service

Any importer, manufacturer or person, who offers for sale any prescribed measuring instrument, product or service, must register with the Chief Executive Officer in the prescribed manner and is subject to any relevant legal metrology technical regulation.

Regulation 3.	Requirements for registration

3. (1)	(a)	Any manufacturer, importer or person who offer for sale or supply any prescribed measuring instrument, product, or provides a service, falling within the ambit of the Act prior to the date of these regulations coming into effect, must apply for registration with the National Regulator within three years from the date of these regulations coming into effect.

(b)	Any manufacturer, importer or person who offer for sale or supply any prescribed measuring instrument, product, or provide a service, falling within the ambit of the Act after the date that these regulations come into effect, must apply for registration with the National Regulator within three years from the date of these regulations coming into effect.

(2)	Application for registration must be done by completing an application form available from the National Regulator and submitting the application form and any additional information required to the National Regulator.

(3)	The National Regulator must issue a certificate as evidence of registration to a person registering. Irrespective of any amendments to the registration certificate, the registration certificate is valid for a five-year period from the date of first registration, after which a new application must be completed if the business of manufacturing, importing of any commodity or product, or providing of a service is still active.

(4)	When any change in the information provided to the National Regulator occurred since registration, the registered person must notify the National Regulator within 30 days of such changes. Such changed information must be notified to the National Regulator in a format as prescribed by the National Regulator.

(5)	An amended registration certificate indicating the changes must be issued by the National Regulator.

'importer' includes any person who, at the time of importation-

a)	owns any goods imported.

b)	carries the risk of any goods imported.

c)	represents that or acts as if he is the importer or owner of any goods imported.

d)	actually brings any goods into the Republic;

e)	is beneficially interested in any way whatever in any goods imported.

f)	acts on behalf of any person referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e);

“Sell” includes to offer, advertise, keep, expose, transmit, convey, deliver, manufacture for sale or prepare for sale, or to exchange or to dispose of for any consideration whatsoever, or to transmit, convey or deliver in pursuance of a sale, exchange or disposal as aforesaid.

‘‘Prescribed purpose” means such purpose as may be prescribed in relation to -–

(a)	the use, possession, manufacture or import of any measuring instrument.

(b)	the manner and result of measurement in the fields of trade, health, safety and environment and any other measurement of a legal nature; and

(c)	the expression of the quantity of any product

‘‘Trade” includes—

(a)	the making, effecting or concluding of any contract, bargain, sale, purchase or transaction, sale of land, or any payment in connection therewith.

(b)	any payment for services rendered.

(c)	the collection of tolls, rates, taxes, fines or other fees; an

(d)	any measurement of a legal nature in connection with which any measuring instrument is used.

“health” includes-

a)	Measuring instruments and devises used to measure the physical aspects of humans, including height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, respiratory volume, hearing and vision.

b)	pharmaceutical dispensing and dispensing, by a medical practitioner, of his own prescription.

c)	Measuring instruments, substances and devices used in chemical, biological and bio-chemical analysis (including counting) to identify biological and chemical substances and species and to determine content, concentration, proportions and counts.

“safety” includes measuring instruments and devices for determining the value of quantities and for checking the observance of permissible limits in occupational safety and accident prevention.

"environment", in respect of measuring instruments and devices for measuring, means—

(a)	sound (noise), vibration, ionizing and nonionizing radiation; and

(b)	pollution of air, water, soil and food products.

‘‘measuring instrument”—

(a)	means any appliance, equipment, instrument, software or apparatus or any combination thereof by means of which a measurement of physical quantity, expressed in any measurement unit or a mathematical function of measurement unit, may be made; and

(b)	includes any appliance, equipment, instrument, software or apparatus or any combination thereof by means of which a grading or counting in connection with the measurement of any physical quantity or a counting by means of gravitation may be affected;