Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B31: Labelling requirements 

Date when the measure came into force

01 February 1988 

Publication where the measure is specified

Act No: CAP. 513 Act Title: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Weights and Measures Act, 1987 

Country/Region applying the measure

Kenya 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health 

Description of the measure

43. Incorrect statements
(1) Notwithstanding section 42(2) to (4), if in the case of any goods required under this Act to have associated with them a document containing particular statements, that document is found to contain any such statement which is materially incorrect, any person who, knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that statement to be materially incorrect, inserted it or caused it to be inserted in the document, or used the document for the purposes of this Act while that statement was contained in the document, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Subsection (2) of section 40 shall have effect for the purposes of this section as it has effect for the purposes of that section. 

Reference of the measure

Part V para 43 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

All products 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries