Weight & Measurement Dealer License

A Dealer Licence under Legal Metrology is required to sell, repair, or maintain weighing/measuring instruments as a trade — separate from the manufacturer's model approval — ensuring dealers handling instrument calibration and stamping are officially authorised.

Dealer licensing exists because instrument accuracy doesn't end at the factory gate — repair, calibration, and re-stamping activity in the field can affect an instrument's accuracy just as much as its original manufacture, so the people performing that work also need to be officially authorised and accountable.

This licence covers trade-side activity — selling, repairing, and maintaining instruments — and is distinct from both the manufacturer's Model Approval (which covers the design) and unit-level verification/stamping (which confirms an individual instrument meets accuracy standards at the point of sale or after repair). A business that both manufactures and sells/repairs instruments typically needs the relevant registrations for each activity it undertakes, not just one.

Because repaired or recalibrated instruments often need re-verification and re-stamping before they can legally go back into use, dealer licensing frequently goes hand in hand with a state-approved facility for that stamping step — which is part of what the premises inspection during licensing confirms.