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Inspection Services


All approved measuring instruments, including scales, electricity and natural gas meters and gasoline pumps, must be inspected before use in commerce begins, and are inspected thereafter to ensure they continue to measure accurately and are not used in a fraudulent manner. Goods and services traded on the basis of measure are also inspected to ensure that they are measured and priced accurately.

Samples of measuring instruments inspected under the authority of the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act include:

Electricity meters (energy measuring meters and demand measuring meters)

  • Instruments transformers (tested for approval but exempted from verification)
  • Auxiliary electricity instruments
  • Automatic meter reading instruments
  • Remote meter reading systems

Gas meters (diaphram type, rotary type, turbine type and ultrasonic type)
  • Temperature measuring, correcting or recording meters
  • Supercompressibility correcting meters
  • Transducers
  • Chromatographs

Samples of measuring instruments inspected under the authority of the Weights and Measures Act include:

Mass scales (deli and grocery store scales, hopper scales, platform scales, truck and conveyor scales)

Volume measuring instruments (gasoline and propane dispensers, loading rack meters and systems for petroleum products and chemicals, mass flow meters, milk receiving meters and systems)

Measurement Canada provides the inspection service to ensure that consumers and businesses alike can make measurement-based transactions with confidence. Our pledge to you is a statement of Measurement Canada’s commitment to provide Canadians with quality services.

Measurement Canada investigates complaints from those who suspect they have received inaccurate measurement. If you have been unable to resolve a measuring difference with the party in question, our Complaints and Disputes service provides consumers and businesses with an avenue of recourse in such circumstances.

To speak with a Measurement Canada representative about our Inspection Services, please Contact Us for personnel information and office location nearest you.
    Created: 2005-08-04
Updated: 2005-12-02
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