And while car owners are being given 10 days plus 30 - the Butane companies have been given something like a hundred days to conform to their new regulations!
To be precise it's been 101 days since the statutory instrument requiring scales was signed and, still, "nada" has happened; the Butane companies continue to operate without scales on their trucks and at their depots and the Bureau of Standards has gone off the radar.
Last we heard from the Bureau on June third, it was issuing 40 summonses to various violators who had not put in the scales in a timely manner - but since then no one has gone to court, and to our knowledge no fines have been paid. What's worse, we've called the Bureau over fifteen times since June third and their spokesperson has been busy, unavailable, at a workshop, out of office, etcetera….a long list of avoidances. In fact, the last official word we heard was when the Prime Minister said on a talk show two weeks ago that he had granted an exemption for the Butane vendors to import the scales duty free.
Still though, at most large suppliers, butane continues to be sold by the meter and not the pound, and without a scale - even though the law says a scale must be used on delivery trucks and at depots.
