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Title: Regulations Governing Verification and Inspection of Measuring Instruments
Am Date: 2018-05-07
Legislative History: Articles 3, 8, 21 and 22 amended and promulgated by Ministerial Order on 7 May 2018.

Transaction

Amended

Article 3
The categories and scopes of legal measuring instruments subject to verification are as follows:
1.Taximeters.
2.Weighing instruments: non-automatic weighing instruments, automatic gravimetric filling weighing instruments and discontinuous totalizing automatic weighing instruments, excluding the following instruments:
(1) The weighing instruments of non-pricing and not for transaction use with a number of verification scale interval all more than 10 000;
(2) The weighing instruments with a number of verification scale interval less than 3000 and maximum weighing capacity less than 3 kg marked not for transaction use of measuring instruments.
(3) Portable suspended weighing instruments with a maximum weighing capacity less than 50 kg and marked not for transaction use of measuring instruments.
(4) Suspended weighing instruments with a maximum weighing capacity more than 1 t;
(5) Bathroom scales;
(6) Weighing in motion non-automatic weighing instruments;
3.Non-Invasive mechanical sphygmomanometers;
4.Volumeters:
(1) Liquid volumetric meters: metal measuring pails and measuring tanks marked with divisions; excluding the following measuring tanks:
(i) Measuring tanks with a capacity of more than 110 m3; and
(ii) Pressure measuring tanks.
(2) Diaphragm gas meters, excluding gas meters with a maximum air flow more than 100 m3/hr.
(3) Water meters: volumetric water meters, velocity water meters(Woltmann meters, single-jet meters and multi-jet meters)and vortex water meters, excluding combination water meters and water meters with a caliber of more than 300 mm.
(4) Oil meters provided for trading petroleum products, excluding oil meters with a caliber of more than 160 mm.
(5) Liquefied petroleum gas flow meters.
5.Electricity meters:Watt-hour meters, Var-hour meters, Watt-hour demand meters, Static electricity meters and Instrument transformers, excluding are as follows:
(1) Ancillary electricity meters within the electric products
(2) Ancillary electricity meters within the converters/inverters
(3) Panel meter
(4) Portable electricity meters
(5) Reference electricity meter
(6) Direct current electricity meter
(7) Energy transducer
(8) Standard electricity meters and those with rated voltage higher than 600 V.
(9) Current transformer operated electricity meters those with rated secondary current below 5 A
(10) Current transformers those with rated secondary current below 5A 
(11) Instrument transformers of 69 kV higher than the nominal system voltage.
6.Speedometers.
(1) Radar speedometers for law enforcement.
(2) Laser speedometers for law enforcement.
(3) Inductive loop speedometers for law enforcement.
7.Sound level meters for official inspection.
8.Concentration meters.
(1) Breathe alcohol testers and analyzers for official inspection.
(2) Rice grain moisture meters.
(3) Field corn moisture meters.
(4) Vehicles exhaust emissions analyzers for official inspection excluding those used for motorcycles and diesel engines.
9.Illuminance meters for official inspection.
10.Electrical thermometers.
The legal measuring instruments subject to verification under the provisions set forth in subparagraph 2 may be exempted from verification if they were manufactured or imported before 1 January 2014 and marked not for transaction use, certification or official inspection.
The field corn moisture meters listed in item 3, subparagraph 8,Paragraph 1 shall be included as legal measuring instruments subject to verification and come into force on 1 July 2016. To meet the field corn production season, the period of accepting verification for field corn moisture meters shall be during February to March and July to August each year.
The applicable targets, applicable legislations, and usage of the legal measuring instruments for official inspection or law enforcement in subparagraph 6 to 9, Paragraph 1 are shown in Annex .
The definitions of petroleum products used in item 4, subparagraph 4, Paragraph 1 shall be referred to subparagraph 4, Paragraph 1, Article 2 of Petroleum Administration Act and include gasoline, diesel oil, kerosene, naphtha, jet fuel, and fuel oil.

Article 8
Verification shall be conduced at the site of the verification agency (institution). Under special circumstances, an application may be filed to require that the verification agency (institution) dispatch its personnel to conduct verification at the storage place of the legal measuring instruments subject to verification.
Where the verification cannot be conducted at the site of the verification agency (institution), the verification agency (institution) shall dispatch its personnel to the storage place of the legal measuring instruments subject to verification and conduct verification by using its own verification apparatus or the other ones which were evaluated by the verification agency (institution)in advance.
In case of dispatching personnel of the verification agency (institution) to the storage place and conducting verification by using its own verification apparatus , the verification agency (institution) may seek the assistance from the applicant in carrying the verification apparatus.

Article 21
Under any of the following circumstances, the verification agency (institution) shall remove the verification and inspection compliance marks (including the corresponding seals) from the verified legal measuring instruments, but in case of multi-instruments sharing a seal and at least one of them passed inspection or verification the seal shall be kept:
1. Where they do not pass verification during the new application; or
2. Where they do not pass inspection.
The measuring instruments that do not pass inspection as referred in the preceding Paragraph shall be attached with markings of stopping use.

Article 22
The dedicated weights and measures authority shall prescribe the formats of the verification and inspection compliance marks and verification certificates for use.