Section 10: Offences in connection with public equipments.

(1) This section shall apply where any article, vehicle, wagon or animal has been delivered for weighing or measuring by means of weighing or measuring equipment which is available and for use by the public and is provided for the purpose of weighing and measuring articles, vehicle, wagon or animal.
(2) If any person appointed to attend to weighing or measuring by means of the equipment in question-
(a) without reasonable cause fails to carry out the weighing or measuring on demand; or
(b) carries out the weighing or measuring unfairly; or
(c) fails to deliver to the person demanding the weighing or measuring or to his agent a statement in writing of the weight or other measurement found; or
(d) fails to make a record of the weighing or measuring including all relevant particulars, and in the case of the weighing of a vehicle or wagon and of any load thereon, as will identify the vehicle or wagon and that load,
he shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) If, in connection with any such equipment as aforesaid-
(a) any person appointed to attend to weighing or measuring by means of the equipment delivers a false statement of any weight or other measurement found or makes a false record of any weighing or measuring; or
(b)
any person commits any fraud in connection with any, or any purported, weighing or measuring by means of that equipment,
he shall be guilty of an offence.
(4) There shall be retained for a period of not less than two years records of any weighing or measuring officially made on weighing or measuring equipment available for use by the public, and an inspector may require the production of such records for inspection at any time during the said period; and accordingly-
(a) if a person attending any weighing or measuring equipment under this section fails to retain or produce any such record, he shall be guilty of an offence;
(b) if any person wilfully destroys or defaces any such record before the expiration of two years from the date it was made, that person shall be guilty of an offence.