Their lawyers argue that the 1985 Weights and Measures Act authorises them to continue using imperial measures.
He was convicted of breaching the Weights and Measures Act 1985 and given a six-month conditional discharge.
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Actually, the governing standards for weights and measures historically grew out of the competitive private marketplace of ideas in every culture.
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It's the clause about weights and measures remaining uniform throughout the realm.
What it does demand is honesty, fair weights and measures, respect for a borrower's collateral, timely payments of wages, resisting usury, and empathy for those injured by life's misfortunes and charity.
Qin formed a centralized, autocratic government, built a nationwide network of roads and canals, standardized weights, measures and currency and formalized the written language.
What I did not realize was that on that day most Hindus were asking God to bless the implements they worked with: farmers wanted blessings for their bulls and plows, and traders for their weights, measures, and coins.
To ensure variety, each set of rankings measures and weights different things.
Set up 14 months ago, WWRE focuses on such things as common standards for weights, measures, shipment terms and sharing sensitive information.
It measures ten by twenty meters and weights three metric tons, event organizers told the newswire.
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The temptation is to add further measures to restrict their wiggle-room (Basel 3 uses both risk weights and a leverage ratio).
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