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VICTOEIA.
ELIZABETHS SECUNM REGINJL
No. 6093.
An Act to amend the Weights and Measures Acts.
[19*/* June, 1957.]
B
E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by
and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this
present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the
same as follows (that is to say):—
Short title
construction
and citation.
N08. 4712,
6471, 5633.
1. This Act may be cited as the Weights and Measures
(Amendment) Act 1957 and shall be read and construed as
one with the Weights and Measures Act 1939 (hereinafter
called the Principal Act) and any Act amending the same
which Acts and this Act may be cited together as the
Weights and Measures Acts.
Amendment of
No. 4712 s. 4.
Interpretation.
2. At the end of section four of the Principal Act
there shall be inserted the following sub-section:—
" (2) In this Act any reference to weighing
instruments or measuring instruments used in trade or
used for trade or for use in trade or any like expression
shall include a reference to public weighing instruments
and public measuring instruments."
3. At
" Used in
trade", Ac.
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3 . A t t h e end of section forty-five of t h e Principal Act Amendment of
there shall be inserted t h e expression " a n d t h e Governor crastitutJn of
in Council m a y a t similar request b y proclamation alter UnlonBor revoke a n y such proclamation (including a n y proclamation see NO. 4712 u.
under section forty-six or under sub-section (3) of section amended by
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No. 6471
B.
3.
three of this Act) .
4. In sub-section (2) of section fifty-seven of the
Principal Act after the words " such municipalities " there
shall be inserted the words " immediately prior to the date
of such dissolution ".
Amendment of
No. 4712 s. 67.
Dissolution of
Union.
5. Section eighty-one of the Principal Act as amended
by any Act is hereby amended as follows :—
Amendment of
No. 4712 8. 81
as amended by
No. 6471 8. 37.
Weight, Ac., of
loaves of
bread.
(a) In paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) for the words
" three slashes across the upper surface " there
shall be substituted the words " not less than
three and not more than five slashes across
the upper surface but not longitudinally along
the loaf";
(b) In sub-section (2) for the expression commencing
" and no bread " to the end of the sub-section
there shall be substituted the expression " and
for the purposes of this Division any bread
which is marked in the way referred to in
paragraph (b) of this sub-section shall until the
contrary is proved be deemed to be Vienna
bread, and any bread not so marked shall until
the contrary is proved be deemed to be bread
other than Vienna bread " ;
(c) For paragraph (iv) of the proviso to sub-section
(4) there shall be substituted the following
paragraph:—
" (iv) for the purposes of this sub-section—
(a) subject to sub-paragraphs (d) (0)
(/) and.(#) of this paragraph a
loaf shall purport to be a one
pound loaf if it weighs not
more than one pound three
ounces;
(b) subject
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(6) subject to sub-paragraphs (d) (e)
(/) and (g) of this paragraph a
loaf shall purport to be a
two pound loaf if it weighs
more than one pound three
ounces and not more than
two pounds six ounces ;
(c) subject to sub-paragraphs (d) (e)
(/) and (g) of this paragraph a
loaf shall purport to be a
four pound loaf if it weighs
more than two pounds six
ounces ;
(d) a Vienna loaf shall purport to he
a twelve ounce Vienna loaf
if it weighs not more than
fourteen ounces ;
(e) a Vienna loaf shall purport to be
a twenty-four ounce Vienna
loaf if it weighs more than
fourteen ounces;
(/) in the case of a type of bread
which is specified for the
purposes of paragraph (b) of
sub-section (1) of this section
and for which only one
denomination is prescribed, a
loaf shall purport to be of the
denomination so prescribed ;
(g) in the case of a type of bread
which is specified for the
purposes of paragraph (b) of
sub-section (1) of this section
and for which two or more
denominations are prescribed,
the denomination of which a
loaf purports to be shall be
as prescribed for the purposes
of this sub-paragraph having
regard to the standard weight
of such loaf—
and for the purposes of this proviso
no loaf purporting to be of any
denomination shall be taken into
account
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account if it exceeds the weight
prescribed for such denomination by
more than—
(h) in the case of a four pound loafsix ounces;
(i) in the case of a twenty-four
ounce
Vienna
loaf—four
ounces;
(j) in the case of a loaf of the
heaviest or only denomination*
prescribed for a loaf of a type
of bread specified for the
purposes of paragraph (b) of
sub-section (1) of this section
—the appropriate weight
prescribed for the purposes
of this sub-paragraph".
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