There are labelling, measurement and pricing requirements for pre-packaged articles. Refer to the following pages for more details:

Labelling
Measurements
Pricing

A person must not use a weighing instrument for weighing pre-packed articles on premises in which articles are pre-packed unless at least one weighing instrument on the premises is approved for trade use under the Commonwealth National Measurement Act, complies with the Trade Measurement Act, and is suitable for measuring the articles to be pre-packed.

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All packages containing pre-packed articles unless specifically exempted (see Schedule 1 below) must be marked with a statement of the true measurement of the article.

This statement must be on the main display part of the package, be clear, conspicuous, readily seen, easily read, be close to, and marked to be read in the same direction as any name or brand of the article is exposed for sale in the manner in which it is likely to be exposed for sale.

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Schedule 1

Textile goods

1. Textile, wearing apparel and other similar articles that are not packed for sale by measurement and are not ordinarily so sold.
2. Textiles that are:
   • packed for sale by mass and are sold in packages;
   • each containing more than 4 kg;
   • packed for sale by length and are sold in packages each containing more than 25 m; or
   • packed for sale by area and are sold in packages each containing more than  25 m².

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Food goods

Any agricultural produce grown and packed on the same property by the grower and sold by mass in sacks of more than 25kg gross mass.

1. Confectionary, nuts, popcorn, potato crisps and savouries that are:
   

   • packed on premises for sale on those premises in a receptacle that bears a statement that can be readily seen and easily read in characters not less than 10mm high of the mass and of the pirce of the contents of the package and if the mass of the contents does not exceed 200g; or
   • packed in or with another article if the value of the combined articles is substantially represented by that other article. 

   
   
2. Confectionery packed singly in a novelty shape and an Easter egg packed singly.
3. Honey in the comb in original frames.
4. Hay.
5. Ice cream packed in a quantity less than 200mL.
6. Kippers.
7. Pies or pasties made for use as an individual serve of which the mass is less than 250g.
8. Cakes, puddings and sponges packed singly in a quantity less than 125g.
9. Alcoholic liquors packed in a quantity of more than 10L.

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Medicinal and toilet goods

Therapeutic goods, being goods the sale or supply of which to the public is prohibited by law except on the written prescription of a person recognised by law as competent to prescribe them.

1. A toilet preparation in a compact and refill of such a preparation.
2. Single application hair dyes or hair bleaches or single application home permanent hair waving kits.
3. Vaccine packed in a quantity less than 25 mL or a single dose of any substance packed in a vial or ampoule for sale for use as an injection.

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Hardware goods

1. Articles of hardware that are not packed for sale by measurement and are not ordinarily so sold.
2. Tinters or colouring agents for use in paint that are packed in a quantity less than 100 g or 100 mL.
3. Colouring material in a package on which is marked directions for mixing it, or a specified quantity of it, with a specified type and volume of paint - if the quantity of the material to be mixed does not exceed 10 per cent of the volume of the paint with which it is to be mixed.

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General goods

1. Articles ordinarily sold by number that are packed in a quantity of less than 9 in a package made wholly or partly of transparent material so that when the package is exposed for sale the number of articles contained in the package is readily apparent to a purchaser.
2. An article of which the mass exceeds 75 kg or the volume exceeds 150 L.
3. An article packed in a quantity less than 15 g or 15 mL other than adhesives, dried vegetables and freeze-dried vegetables, herbs, instant tea, pepper and other spices, therapeutic goods and tobacco.
4. Fire extinguisher refills.
5. Photographic film and photographic printing paper.
6. A bag of clay.
7. Fish bait.
8. Garden landscape material, including pine-bark feature mix, pine-bark nuggets, pre-planted mushroom spawn, tree-bark, any article that is or contains compost, farmyard manure, garden peat, leaf mould, peatmoss, sphagnum moss, tanbark or other like substance.
9. Artists’ paint packed in a quantity less than 100 g.
10. Candles.
11. Legume seed inoculants.

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