Forgery, tempering, etc., of Inspector’s stamp on weights and measures instruments

Any person who, (a) forges or counterfeits any stamp or mark provided under this Act for the by Inspectors in stamping weights or measures or weighing or measuring instruments; or (b) makes, uses sells, exposes for sale, utters or otherwise disposes of any weight or measure or weighing or measuring instrument bearing any stamp or mark which he knows to be false, forged or counterfeited; or (c) removes any mark which has been stamped by an Inspector on any weight or measure or weighing or 27 measuring instrument and inserts such mark on any other weight, measure or weighing or measuring instrument; or (d) increases or diminishes a weight or measure which has been stamped or certified by an Inspector under this Act, or tampers with a weighing or measuring instrument which has been so stamped, or uses, sells, exposes for sale, utters for sale, keeps in his possession for use in a trade or otherwise disposes of any weight or measure which he knows to be so increased, diminished or false, or any weighing or measuring instrument which he knows to be tampered with; is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.