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2. Articles named hereunder shall be exempt from the provisions of section 18 of the Act when such articles are sold by gross weight and an invoice or delivery-note showing such weight is delivered to the purchaser in lieu of an invoice or delivery-note showing the net weight as prescribed by subsection (2):—

3. Agricultural produce (such as wheat, maize, oats, potatoes, chaff) when sold in full sacks of customary size.

4. Hay and straw in bales.

5. Milled products of grain (such as flour, bran, pollard, wheat-meal) when sold in full sacks of customary size over 50 lb. weight.

6. Fertilizers when sold in full sacks of customary size over 50 lb. weight.

METHOD OF MARKING OF THE NET WEIGHT OR MEASURE ON PACKED GOODS.

Act, Sections 18 (3) and 39 (t).

3. The marking of the net weight or measure of any article sold by retail and enclosed in a package as required by section 18 of the Act shall be expressed as provided hereunder:—

(a.) Where an article is solid, semi-liquid, or partly solid and partly liquid, and is not an article commonly sold by lineal or superficial measure, such marking shall be expressed in terms of weight, and not otherwise.
(b.) Where an article is liquid, such marking shall be expressed in terms of liquid measure.
(c.) Where an article is commonly sold by lineal or superficial measure, such marking shall be expressed in terms of such measure.

4. The weight expressed shall be in terms of avoirdupois weight unless the article is one to which the provisions of section 15 of the Act apply (viz., gold and other precious metals, precious stones, and drugs).

5. Weight of drugs may be either in terms of avoirdupois or apothecaries’ weight. Where the denomination “ounce” or “drachm” in apothecaries’ weight is used, it shall be followed by the term “Apoth.”

6. Avoirdupois weight shall be stated in pounds, ounces, drams, and grains; liquid measure shall be stated in gallons, quarts, pints, gills, fluid ounces, fluid drachms; and measures of length in yards, feet, and inches: Provided that the fractions ¾, ½, ¼ may be used to express fractional parts of a unit.

7. In the marking of any net weight or measure the abbreviations contained in Table 1 of Part III may be used.

8. Every net weight or measure should be expressed in terms of the greatest unit applicable to the quantity sold, smaller units being used only for that part of such quantity which is not exactly measurable in terms of such first-mentioned unit, as in the following examples:—

“Net—One pound four ounces,” or “Net—1 lb. 4 oz.,” or “Net—1¼ lb.”; not in the form “20 ounces,” or “20 oz.,” or in any other form.:

“One ounce (Apoth.),” or “1 oz. (Apoth.)”:

“One pint five fluid ounces,” or “1 pint 5 fl. oz.,” or “1¼ pints”; not in the form “25 fluid ounces,” or “25 fld. oz.,” or in any other form:

Provided that this regulation shall not be deemed to require statement in units greater than pound, yard, or gallon, respectively, or preclude statement in inches of the width of any article where it is customary to express the width in such terms.

9. The marking of net weight or measure shall—

(1.) Be in a prominent position in proximity to the name or description of the contents;
(2.) Be clearly stamped or printed in bold capital letters of not less than six points face measurement, and of a colour in distinct contrast to the background, and in the following form: “Net weight lb. oz.”:

Provided that on packages on which no printed description appears the net weight or measure may be clearly and legibly written or printed thereon, or on a label firmly attached to such package: Provided further that when a package is so small as to preclude the marking in letters of the size prescribed, such marking may be written in types of smaller size, but sufficiently large to be clear and legible.

10. Where lineal measure is marked on any package and the width of the article therein contained has a direct relation to the value, such width shall also be marked thereon.

11. The term “fluid ounce” shall be used only as a measure of volume or capacity, and shall indicate quantity equivalent in volume to an ounce of distilled water by avoirdupois weight. A fluid drachm is one-eighth of a fluid ounce.

12. The written warranty referred to in subsection (2) (a) of section 19 of the said Act may be in one of the forms set out in the Schedule to this Part of these regulations.