Weights and Measures Regulations

224 When a machine is tested in relation to a relevant local standard for either acceptance or in-service limits of error by measurement of a known area on a surface representative of the kind of material for which the machine is designed, the machine is within both the acceptance and in-service limits of error in respect of that area and that kind of material if the area registered does not differ from the known area by more than 0.006 square metres or 1.5 per cent of the known area, whichever is greater, and, in the case of a machine measuring in Canadian units of measurement, 1/16 square foot or 1.5 per cent of the known area, whichever is greater.