Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2018)
Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2018)
Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2018)
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.16
October 26, 2018
(Adopted at the 12th session of the Standing Committee of the 6th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on September 6, 1985; amended for the first time according to the Decision on Amending Certain Laws passed at the 10th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on August 27, 2009; amended for the second time according to the Decision on Amending Seven Laws including the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Marine Environment passed at the 6th session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on December 28, 2013; and amended for the third time according to the Decision on Revising Five Laws including the Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China passed at the 14th session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on April 24, 2015; and amended for the fourth time according to the Decision on Amending the Bid Invitation and Bidding Law of the People's Republic of China and the Metrology Law of the People's Republic of China at the 31st Session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on December 27, 2017; and amended for the fifth time in accordance with the Decision on Amending Fifteen Laws Including the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Wild Animals adopted at the Sixth Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress on October 26, 2018)
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Primary Standard Instruments of Measurement, Standard Instruments of Measurement and Metrological Verification
Chapter III Administrative Control of Measuring Instruments
Chapter IV Metrological Supervision
Chapter V Legal Liability
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is formulated to strengthen the metrological supervision and administration, to ensure the uniformity of the national system of units of measurement and the accuracy and reliability of the quantity value, so as to contribute to the development of production, trade, science and technology, meet the needs of socialist modernization and safeguard the interests of the state and the people.
Article 2 Within the territory of the People's Republic of China, this Law shall be abided by in establishing primary standard measuring instruments and standard measuring instruments, conducting metrological verification, and the manufacture, repair, sale or use of measuring instruments.
Article 3 The State shall adopt a system of legal units of measurement.
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