Section 17, Weights and Measures Act, 2010

(1) The Chief Inspector shall cause such workingstandards and instruments for weighing or measuring as he may think requisite to be procured and delivered to the Inspectors and every Inspector shall, at such times and places as the Chief Inspector shall by public notice appoint, attend with his working standards and instruments for weighing and measuring, and examine all weights, measures and instruments for weighing or measuring brought to him. Custodian of Weights and Measures. Inspectors of Weights and Measures. Duties of Inspectors. Act No. 2 of 1996. (2) An Inspector shall examine every weight and measure which is brought to him for the purpose of verification, and shall compare it with the corresponding working standard. (3) If he finds it to be just, and not already stamped or marked, he shall stamp or mark it in the prescribed manner. (4) An Inspector shall also stamp and mark in the prescribed manner any instrument for weighing or measuring brought or submitted to him for examination which he finds to be just and accurate and not already stamped or marked. (5) Whenever an Inspector stamps, marks, or verifies any weight, measure or instrument for weighing or measuring, he shall enter in a book kept by him particulars of the stamping, marking or verification.