Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “accuracy” means the degree of conformity with such one or more working, secondary, or national reference or international standards as the context demands; “authorized denomination” means the denomination of a weight or measures specified in the Schedule 4; “authorized units of measurement” means the units of measurement specified in the Schedule 3; “Bureau” means the Belize Bureau of Standards established by the Standards Act, Cap. 294; “container” includes anything in or by which an article is cased, enclosed, contained or packed; “Director” means the Director of Standards appointed under section 4 of Standards Act, Cap. 294 and includes a Weights and Measures Inspector; 8 “equipment” means a weight, measure, or a weighing or measuring instrument or sub-assembly of a weighing or “importer” means the person by whom or on whose behalf the package, container, or weighing or measuring equipment is entered for customs purposes on importation; “initial verification” means the verification of a new or repaired weight, measure or weighing or measuring instrument prior to being placed in service; is or to be, used as a standard for determining the accuracy of a “packer” means, in relation to a pre-package, the person who placed the goods in the container included in the pre-package; “pattern approval” means the approval by the Director of a specific model of a weighing or measuring instrument for its intended use, after one or more instruments have been tested in accordance with the prescribed requirements; “pre-package” means a container containing goods together with the container in a case where, (a) the goods are placed for sale in the container otherwise than in the presence of a person purchasing the goods; and (b) none of the goods can be removed from the container without opening it; “prescribed” means prescribed by Regulations made by the Minister under this Act; “prescribed mark of verification” means a mark prescribed by Regulations made by the Minister under this Act; 9 “Specified Standards laboratory” means the national standards laboratory of any country or an international standards laboratory specified by the Minister for the purposes of this Act by Order published in the Gazette; “trade” means any contract, bargain, sale or dealing referred to in section 10 of this Act and includes the packing in Belize of any article in a container for purposes of sale; “weight” means a body of determinate mass for use within a weighing instrument; “weighing instrument” means an instrument for the measurement of mass or weight; “Working Standard” means an object, being a copy of, or equivalent to, a Secondary Standard, which, (a) has been calibrate and certified to the satisfaction of the by reference to one or more Secondary Standards; and (b) is, or is to be, used as a standard for the purpose of determining the accuracy of measuring instruments other than National Reference or Legal and Standard Units of Measurement