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4 SCHEDULE 12.

For imported items, work place and market place items Le The first 25 items– normal additional items will attract a fee of 25% of the normal charge.

13.

Registration fees for importers/agents dealers of weighing and measuring devices ... ... 200,000.00 14.

Landing /acceptance inspection Inspection Fees (C.I.F.

value of consignment) Inspection Fees (F.O.B.

value of consignment) ... ... ... ... 1% 1% 15.


Cash totalizers (registers) Cash Register (meeting fair trade specifications) ... ... 100,000.00 16.

Certificate of justness Each certificate of justness for each item of weighing or measuring instrument fit for use for trade and stamped MADE this 11th day of August, 2009.

... ... 5,000.00 DAVID O. CAREW, Minister of Trade and Industry.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE.

GAZETTE NO.

42 OF 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2008.


STATUTORY INSTRUMENT Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol.

CXL, No.

42 dated 17th September, 2009 STATUTORY INSTRUMENT NO.

4 OF 2009 Published 17th September, 2009 THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 2009 (Act No.

of 2009).

THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (TESTING AND ADJUSTING FEES) REGULATIONS, 2009 Short title.
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister of Trade and Industry by paragraph (a) of section 33 of the Weights and Measures Act, 2009, the Minister of Trade and Industry hereby makes these Regulations– 1.

The following fees specified in the Schedule shall be charged for stamping, marking or verifying weights and measures and instruments for weighing or measuring.

Chargeable fees.

2.


(1) A certificate of justness shall be issued for every item of weighing and measuring equipment passed as fit for use for trade and stamped, pursuant to section 12 of the Weights and Measures Act, 2009.

Certificate of justness .


(2) A certificate of justness shall specify all weights, or instruments tested and stamped, but separate certificates of justness shall be issued for a weight or set of weights or a measure of an instrument tested and stamped for the same person on the same occasion.

(3) The fee to be paid for each certificate of justness issued shall be as prescribed in the Schedule.

3.
3.

In addition to the fees prescribed in the Schedule, owners of weighing and measuring equipment tested and stamped as fit for use for trade shall be liable for the payment of the actual cost of cartage, carriage and lifting of the working standards: Liability for cartage and lifting of standards.

Provided that when the owner of the equipment elects to find his own labourers for the cartage, carriage and lifting of the working standards no charge shall be made for such cartage, carriage and lifting.
2 Reimburse- ment of expenses.

4.

Every owner of a weighing and measuring instrument or equipment used and stamped shall, when appropriate, be liable to reimburse any travelling expenses incurred by the Inspector, and the cost including overtime payments of any special request made for the purpose of testing and stamping their weighing and measuring instruments or equipment.

Revocation of S I No.

10 of 2003 5.

The Statutory Instrument No.


10 of 2003 (Weights and Measures Testing and Adjusting Fees) Regulations, 2003 is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1.

Fuel pumps certificate 2.

(a) Fuel pumps – electronic machines (b) Fuel pumps – electromechanical (c) Containers – dual Container – single Measures of weights (a) 20 kilograms or more (b) 1 kilogram to under 20 kilograms (c) 500 grams to under 1 kilogram (d) Under 500 grams (e) Authorized metric carat weights (Electrical DC Operated each) 3.
Measures of length (a) 10 metres or more (b) 2 metres to under 10 metres (c) 1 metre to under 2 metres (d) Under 1 metre 4.

Measures of capacity ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (a) 20 litres to under 50 litres ... (b) 5 litre to under 20 litres ... (c) 500 millilitres to under 5 litres (d) under 500 millilitres ... (e) Double fees for sub-divided measures 5.
Weighing machines/instruments (a) 30 tonnes or more (b) 10 tonnes to under 30 tonnes (c) 5 tonnes to under 10 tonnes (d) 1 tonne to under 5 tonnes ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Le 150,000.00 100,000.00 60,000.00 30.000.00 50,000.00 30,000.00 25,000.00 20,000.00 200,000.00 30,000.00 25,000.00 20,000.00 15,000.00 100,000.00 80,000.00 60,000.00 50,000.00 – 400,000.00 200,000.00 150,000.00 120,000.00 SCHEDULE 3 (e) 500 kilograms to under 1 tonne ... (f) 100 kilograms to under 500 kilograms... (g) 10 kilograms to under 100 kilograms ... ... (h) Under 10 kilograms Le ... ... ... ... 100,000.00 80,000.00 60,000.00 40,000.00 ... ... ... ... 6.
Self Indicating or semi-self indicating machines ... ... (a) 1 tonne to under 2 tonnes ... ... (b) 500 kilograms to under 1 tonne ... (c) 100 kilograms to under 500 kilograms... ... (d) 100 kilograms to under 50 kilograms ... ... ... (e) Under 50 kilograms ... ...

Under 20 kilograms 7.

Other measuring machines/instruments (a) Automatic filling machines (b) Others (manual) ... ... ... ... 8.
Measuring instruments Gantry bulk Meters 2,000 litres to under 50,000 litres Road tankers A set of diprods for a vehicle or wagon or compartment of a capacity (a) 250 litres or more ... (b) Over 100 litres and under 250 litres ... ... (c) 100 litres and under 250 litres ... ... ... (d) Petrol Pump ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 80,000.00 70,000.00 60,000.00 50,000.00 40,000.00 30,000.00 200,000.00 100,000.00 400,000.00 150,000.00 120,000.00 100,000.00 80,000.00 9.
Metre for measurement of petroleum products (a) (b) (c) Container for dispensing lubricants Inlet or outlet of 3.8 cm in diameter or more ... Inlet or outlet of less than 3.8 cm in diameter ... ... 100,000.00 80,000.00 60,000.00 10.

Measuring instrument for intoxicating liquor/machines 50 millilitres or more 200 millilitres to under 500 millilitres (a) (b) (c) Under 200 millilitres 11.

Verification in batch quantities of factories ... ... ... 60,000.00 50,000.00 40,000.00 1 percent of total value of items