PotatoesE+W+S
13.—(1) Where at any premises other than a vehicle or ship any potatoes have been sold by weight when made up in a container, and the sale is otherwise than by retail, the buyer may require all or any of the following weighings to be carried out at those premises, that is to say—
(a)a weighing of that container while the potatoes are therein;
(b)a weighing of that container after the removal of the potatoes therefrom;
(c)a weighing of a similar container which is empty,
and thereupon the seller shall either carry out or permit the buyer to carry out the weighing or weighings so required; and if the seller without reasonable cause contravenes this requirement he shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) The occupier of any premises at which any potatoes are made up in a container for sale by weight otherwise than by retail, or of any premises (other than a vehicle or ship) at which such potatoes so made up are so sold, shall provide suitable weighing equipment and make that equipment available for any weighing or weighings required under the foregoing paragraph to be carried out at those premises; and if he without reasonable cause contravenes any of the requirements of this paragraph he shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Any person guilty of an offence under this article shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £2,000.