Enforcement
C1C7C826 Enforcing authorities.
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F51A
For the investigatory powers available to a local weights and measures authority for the purposes of the duty in subsection (1), see Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
C2C32
Every local weights and measures authority shall, whenever the Board of Trade so direct, make to the Board a report on the exercise of their functions under this Act in such form and containing such particulars as the Board may direct.
F43
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Nothing in this section shall be taken as authorising a local weights and measures authority in Scotland to institute proceedings for an offence.
F627 Power to make test purchases.
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F728 Power to enter premises and inspect and seize goods and documents.
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F829 Obstruction of authorised officers.
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F930 Notice of test and intended prosecution.
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31 Evidence by certificate. C4
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The Board of Trade may by regulations provide that certificates issued by such persons as may be specified by the regulations in relation to such matters as may be so specified shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be received in evidence of those matters in any proceedings under this Act.
C5C62
Such a certificate shall not be received in evidence—
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unless the party against whom it is to be given in evidence has been served with a copy thereof not less than seven days before the hearing; or
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if that party has, not less than three days before the hearing, served on the other party a notice requiring the attendance of the person issuing the certificate.
C53
In any proceedings under this Act in Scotland, a certificate received in evidence by virtue of this section or, where the attendance of a person issuing a certificate is required under subsection (2)(b) of this section, the evidence of that person, shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.
C54
For the purposes of this section any document purporting to be such a certificate as is mentioned in this section shall be deemed to be such a certificate unless the contrary is shown.
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Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.