Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

NATIONAL TRADE MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS 2009 (SLI NO 233 OF 2009) - REG 4.38

         (1)   For paragraph 20 (1) (t) of the Act, this regulation prescribes circumstances in which a group of prepackages is taken to have failed testing in accordance with AQS test procedures

         (2)   A circumstance is that the weighted average quantity of product in the sample of prepackages is less than the nominal quantity.

         (3)   A circumstance is that the sample includes more inadequate prepackages, containing a quantity of product less than Q n -  T , than is permitted in column 5 of the table in regulation 4.34.

Note    This is also known as a T1 error.

An inadequate prepackage that is found to contain an actual quantity less than the nominal quantity minus the tolerable deficiency for the nominal quantity has a T1 error.

         (4)   A circumstance is that 1 or more inadequate prepackages in the sample contains a quantity of product less than Q n - T2 , where T2 is equal to 2*T.

Note 1    This is also known as a T2 error.

An inadequate prepackage that is found to contain an actual quantity less than the nominal quantity minus twice the tolerable deficiency for the nominal quantity has a T2 error.

Note 2    The effect of this regulation is that an inspection lot:

(a)   will be accepted if none of the circumstances exists; and

(b)   will be rejected if 1 or more of the circumstances exists.