SCHEDULE A. Tables of the values of the principal denominations of Measures and Weights on the Metric System, expressed in terms of the Standard Measures and Weights of Canada : SCHEDULE B. Acts and parts of Acts repealed. Con. Stat. Can., chap. 53. Stat. Province Can. 28, Vict. chap. 6. Con. Stat. U. C., chap.58. Revised Stat. New Bruns- Nova Scotia Revised Stat. British Columbia. Act of the Parliament of An Act respecting Weights The whole. Section 21. The whole. The whole. ex and Measures. Of Weights and Measures. The whole. An Act relating to Weights. The whole. Of Weights and Measures. The whole. Canada, 34 Vict., Chap. An Act to render permissive 24. the use of the Metric or of the decimal system of The whole. Weights and Measures. The whole. CHAP. 48. An Act to provide for the Inspection of Gas and Gas Meters. [Assented to 23rd May, 1873.] WHEREAS it is expedient that the measurement of gas, sold Preamble. and supplied for lighting, heating and other purposes, should be hereafter regulated by one uniform standard; that the illuminating power of such gas, and the purity thereof, should be regulated by certain rules and tested; and that all gas meters should be inspected and stamped: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: shall mean Definition of gas 1. In construing this Act, the word "meter meter, and shall include every kind of machine, apparatus or instrument used for measuring gas: the word "undertaker" shall mean any company or party undertaking to furnish gas to any "purchaser," Standard of measure for Gas. feet. 36 VICT. "purchaser," which word shall include any corporation, person or party to whom such gas is to be furnished: the expression, "prescribed quality," shall mean that quality of gas which the undertaker has undertaken to supply to the purchaser: and the word 'Inspector" shall mean an Inspector of Gas Meters appointed under this Act. 2. After the date fixed by the proclamation to be issued under this Act, the only standard or unit of measure for the sale of gas by meter, shall be the cubic foot, containing sixty-two pounds and three hundred and twenty-one thousandths of a pound avoirdupois weight of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of sixtytwo degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches; except as relates to contracts made before the passing of this Act, and in which a different unit of measure is adopted, which contracts, if renewed, shall adopt the unit of measure above prescribed. Models of gas3. Within as short a period as may be, after the passing of this holders, measuring in cubic ct, models of gasholders measuring the said cubic foot, and such multiples and decimal parts of the said cubic foot, as the Minister of Inland Revenue shall deem expedient, and from time to time models of such further multiples and decimal parts of the said cubic foot as the Minister of Inland Revenue shall from time to time think necessary shall be carefully made with proper balances, indices and apparatus for testing the measurement and registration of meters; and such models shall be verified under the direction of the Minister of Inland Revenue, and when so made and verified, shall be deposited in the Department of Inland Revenue; and copies of the models so deposited, verified as aforesaid, shall be used under such regulations as may be approved by the Governor in Council, for testing and verifying all meters used within the Dominion. Verification and deposit for use. Models of ap-, paratus for testing gas. Commence ment of this Act. 4. Models of the apparatus described in Schedule A of this Act, for testing the illuminating power and purity of gas, shall also be procured; and, after having been approved by the Minister of Inland Revenue, shall be deposited in the Department of Inland Revenue; and copies of the said models shall be used in the manner described in part two of the said Schedule A, and in such further instructions, not inconsistent therewith, as may be from time to time directed by departmental regulations, for testing the illuminating power and purity of gas. 5. So soon as the models and apparatus herein mentioned, have been obtained and approved, the Governor in Council may issue a proclaination, fixing a day, not less than six months from the date of such proclamation, upon which the provisions of this Act respecting inspection shall go into operation. Appointment of Inspectors. INSPECTORS AND APPARATUS. 6. In every city, town, village or place in Canada where gas is made for sale, one or more Inspectors of gas and gas meters may be appointed by the Governor, whose duty shall be to have the custody of all measuring and testing apparatus and standards, and of all stamps and stamping apparatus supplied for use in the place for which he is appointed, hereinafter referred to as his "district;" and the Inspectors so appointed shall verify all gas meters, and Their duties. test the purity of gas used in their respective districts, and shall stamp the meters when found correct, and grant certificates as to the quality of the gas, in such manner and in such form as may be prescribed by regulations made under authority of this Act; and any such Inspector may at all reasonable hours enter any place within his district where any meter is used for measuring gas delivered to a purchaser, for the purpose of inspecting the meter so used. 7. The Inspectors appointed under this Act shall be paid such How paid. allowances or salary for their services as may be from time to time ordered by the Governor in Council, not exceeding what may be voted by Parliament. 8. Inspectors of weights and measures, and other officers of Who may be appointed.. Inland Revenue, may be appointed, and act as Gas Inspectors under this Act: but no officer appointed under this Act shall be a Proviso. maker or seller of gas or gas meters, or employed by any maker or seller of gas or gas meters; nor shall any such officer repair or adjust any gas meter inspected or verified by him. to be furnished 9. Every Inspector appointed under this Act shall be supplied Standards, & by the Department of Inland Revenue, under such regulations as to Inspectors. may be prescribed by the Minister of Inland Revenue, with the necessary apparatus for testing and verifying gas and gas meters; which apparatus shall first be tested and verified by the primary models and apparatus established by authority of this Act. give security. 10. Each Inspector on appointment shall take an oath for the Inspectors to faithful and impartial discharge of the duties assigned to him be sworn and before some Justice of the Peace, who shall give him a certificate, of his having done so, which shall be transmitted by him to the Minister of Inland Revenue, in whose office it shall be kept; and shall be furnished with the necessary inspection standards, being copies duly authenticated, of the official standards and other apparatus: he shall give bonds to an amount to be fixed by Order in Council for the safe custody and careful preservation of such standards and apparatus and for their delivery over to his successor in the event of his resignation or removal from office, and for the due accounting for all moneys received by him in the execution of this Act. of Standards. 11. Once in every five years at the least, and whenever re- Verification quired so to do by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, each Inspector shall present his inspection standards and other apparatus in his possession for the purpose of ascertaining and establishing their accuracy by comparison with the official standards, and shall obtain from the Commissioner a certificate of their accuracy. |