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法規資訊
Title: Regulations Governing Management of Prepackaged Products
Am Date: 2011-03-01
Legislative History: Articles 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, and 15 amended and promulgated by Ching-Piao-Tzu No.10004601020 of the Ministry of Economic on March 1, 2011

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Article 3
The following prepackaged products, after having been designated and made known to the public by public notice under Paragraph One, Article 45 of the Act, shall be governed by these Regulations, unless prescribed by otherwise laws or regulations:
1. With a net content of 5g~10kg expressed in units of mass;
2. With a net content of 5ml~10l expressed in units of volume;
3. With a net content expressed in count.

Article 4
Prepackaged products shall bear a declaration of the net content in an obvious way pursuant to the following provisions:
1. The characters shall include the number and the name or symbol of the units of legal metrology, and the height and width of a character shall be not less than 2 millimeters (mm.) However, statements of a net content in terms of count shall be expressed in whole numbers if the prepackaged products are sold by number; and
2. Prepackaged products shall bear a determinate net content. The declaration of a range of the net content, an additional plus/minus values, inconsistent or other undetermined way is not permitted.

Article 9
The control of prepackaged products shall be conducted as following provisions:
1. Prepackaged products sampled by market sampling by random for testing, if the tests results fails to meet relent provisions, shall sample from manufacturer’s plants or storehouses, or importer’s storehouse directly.
2. Where it is necessary, according to factual evidence as the provision of Article 46, prepackaged products can be sampled at the place of display for sale, manufacturer’s plants or storehouses, or importer’s storehouse directly.
Where there aren’t prepackaged products left or there isn’t enough prepackaged products for double sample size at manufacturer’s plants or storehouses, or importer’s storehouse for testing, the owner of the aforementioned prepackaged products shall provide the relevant information on sale sites, and company with the dedicated weights and measures authority to those sites to sample for testing.
While the dedicated weights and measures authority or its sub-bureau implements sampling and testing, it shall sample additional double size prepackaged products, and keep them under sealed at sampling site. The owner shall cooperate with the dedicated weights and measures authority or its sub-bureau doing such sampling, and shall not evade, impede or refuse.
The sample size shall be determined in accordance with the inspection lot size specified in the annexed Table 1.

Article 11
A statement as referred to in Paragraph Two, Article 47 of Act shall include at least the name and number of the prepackaged products, the name and address of the dealer, producer or importer, the place of sampling, and the date of production or the validity period, and shall be signed or sealed by the inspector and the holder of prepackaged products or the on-site personnel.

Article 12
Where the prepackaged products are unqualified in sampling test and the producer or importer doesn’t agree with the test result, an application form may be prepared and submitted, with fifteen days commencing from the day following receipt of the notice of disqualification, together with the retest fee to the dedicated weights and measures authority or its sub-bureau, to apply for retest in respect of the original double sample size prepackaged products.
After being confirmed by the dedicated weights and measures authority or its sub-bureau, the original double sample size prepackaged products shall be sent to designated location by the applicant.

Article 15
These Regulations shall come into force from January 1, 2012.