Marking of Weight on Heavy Packages Act 1932 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

MARKING OF WEIGHT ON HEAVY PACKAGES ACT 1932

[Consolidated as at 1 August 2002 on the authority of the Administrator and in accordance with the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980] ________

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title 2. Weight to be shown on certain packages

NORFOLK ISLAND

Marking of Weight on Heavy Packages Act 1932 _______________________________________________________________________

An Act relating to the Marking of the Weight on heavy Packages transported by Vessels

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Marking of Weight on Heavy Packages Act 1932.

Weight to be shown on certain packages

2. (1) Any consignor who consigns within the Territory for transport by sea any package or article of cargo of a gross weight of 2 tonnes or over, shall mark prominently upon the package or article, or upon a label securely attached to it, in legible and durable characters of not less than 3 centimetres in height, a statement of its approximate gross weight set out in tonnes and kilograms;

Provided that in the case of a package or article of cargo which, by reason of its nature, the place of shipment, or the absence of machinery for weighing articles of the weight or size of the package or article of cargo, it is not practicable to weigh, but which is of a weight of over 2 tonnes, the consignor shall mark the gross weight approximately, within a limit of 0.5 tonne, as "Over 2 tonnes but under 2.5 tonnes" or as the case may be.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) The master of a ship who permits to be loaded on board the ship any package or article of cargo of a weight of 2 tonnes or over which has not been prominently legibly and durably marked in accordance with this Act shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: 3 penalty units.