✨ Weights and Measures Ordinance
yard, or Spring-balance, or by any un-stamped or unmarked weight or measure, every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of Forty shillings.
For selling by Heaped Measure.
- If any person shall sell any articles by the heaped measure, he shall forfeit and pay for every such sale, any sum not exceeding Forty shillings.
Penalties how to be recovered and applied.
- The penalties hereby imposed shall be recovered in a summary way before any two Justices of the Peace, and shall cause one moiety of every penalty which shall be paid, by virtue of any such conviction, to be awarded to the person who shall sue for the same.
Governor to appoint and define Towns, &c.
- It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, from time to time, by proclamation, to appoint and define the towns or districts to which the operation of this Ordinance shall extend, and, from time to time, in like manner, to alter their limits, and to revoke such proclamation, as to him shall seem meet. And the provisions of this Ordinance shall not be construed to apply in any respect whatever to any town or district not appointed and defined by His Excellency the Governor in the manner aforesaid.
Weigh-bridges and Steel-yards may be used, &c.
- Nothing in this Ordinance contained, shall be construed to prevent the use of Weigh-bridges in the weighing of hay, bark, and such other rough goods, as are usually weighed in that manner; nor to prevent the use of Steel-yards in the weighing of goods not exposed for sale in the ordinary course of trade; Provided that no such Steel-yard be used within the limits of any town which shall be brought under the operation of this Ordinance.
Commencement of Ordinance.
- This Ordinance shall come into operation from and immediately after the passing thereof, so far as regards the deposit of Standards, the verification of Copies and Models, and the appointment of persons for carrying this Ordinance into execution, and in all other respects the said Ordinance shall come into operation on a day being two Calendar months from and after the first notification in the New Zealand Government Gazette, of the appointment of any such person.
Interpretation.
- For the purposes of this Ordinance, the word “Governor,” shall be taken to include the “Lieutenant Governor,” or “the Officer Administering the Government” of the Colony for the time being.
GEORGE GREY,
Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander-in-Chief.
Passed the Legislative Council,
this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
J. COATES,
Clerk of Council.
SCHEDULE.
LIST OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES TO BE DEPOSITED AS HERETOFORE PROVIDED.
Standard Weights.
Fifty-six Pounds.
Twenty-eight Pounds.
Fourteen Pounds.
Seven Pounds.
Four Pounds.
Two Pounds.
One Pound.
Eight Ounces.
Four Ounces.
Two Ounces.
One Ounce.
Eight Drams.
Four Drams.
Two Drams.
One Dram.
Standard Measures of Capacity.
One Bushel.
One Half Bushel.
One Peck.
One Half Peck.
One Quarter Peck.
One Gallon.
One Half Gallon.
One Quart.
One Pint.
One Half Pint.
One Gill.
One Half Gill.
Standard Measuring Rod.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1859, No 28
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Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1856
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration26 November 1846
Ordinance, Weights and Measures, Standards, Inspectors
- GEORGE GREY, Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander-in-Chief
- J. COATES, Clerk of Council