G/TBT/N/ZAF/205  
 
11 May 2016  
(16-2602)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member: SOUTH AFRICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible: Department of Trade and Industry 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :  
National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications 
Chief Executive Officer 
Private Bag X25 Brooklyn 0075 
Email: Theresa.Stoltz@nrcs.org.za  
Telephone: 012 482 8702 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10 .1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): ICS 17.020 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Legal Metrology 
Draft Regulations (132 pages, in English).  
6. Description of content: These regulations specify requirements for the registration of 
importers, manufacturers, persons who offer for sale any prescribed measuring 
instrument, product or service subject to any relevant legal metrology technical regulation to establish the coverage of legal metrology in South Africa, requirements for the development, amendment and adoption of technical regulations as required by sections 15 
and 16 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2014, re quirements for the measurement standards 
used by market surveillance inspectors, verification officers and persons responsible for repairs, requirements for the measurement, labelling, and prescribed quantities in pre-
packages and general rules for the delivery and sale of goods, requirements for the 
compliance schemes and distinctive marks that are used by the National Regulator to regulate more effectively in terms of section 37 of the Act, deals with the process to be 
followed when measuring instruments, products or services that are used for a prescribed 
purpose in terms of the Legal Metrology Act does not comply with the legal metrology technical regulations, requirements for veri fication bodies, and repair bodies and the 
appointment and registration of verification of ficers and persons responsible for repairs, in 
terms of the applicable provisions of the Act, requirements for the measuring instruments, 
vessels and containers, which are exempt from type approval and verification under sections 22 and 24 of the Act, requirements for the verification periods for measuring 
instruments used for a prescribed purpose. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection G/TBT/N/ZAF/205 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:  Government Gazette No.39832 18 March 2016  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  After all comments are taken into consideration 
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months after date of final publication 
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body: