Prescribed requirements for print and type in documents
24 Prescribed requirements for print and type in documents
For the purposes of section 151(2)(b) of the Act —
subject to paragraph (c), where any print or type is produced directly or indirectly by a method or process under which each character occupies a space of the same width, that print or type shall be not smaller than 12‑pitch;
subject to paragraph (c), print or type produced by a method or process other than that referred to in paragraph (a), shall be in one of the type faces specified in Schedule 7, or a type face or font identical in appearance to a specified type face, and of or larger than the size of 10 point;
where there is in any printed or typed document a blank space in which further print or type is subsequently inserted by a method or process by which each character occupies a space of the same width, that latter print or type shall, when inserted, be not smaller than 13‑pitch.
In subregulation (1) —
character includes a letter, figure, symbol, punctuation mark and space between adjacent characters;
12‑pitch means of dimensions such that any selected passage of print or type 25 mm in length includes no more than 12 characters and 13‑pitch has a corresponding meaning.
[Regulation 24, formerly regulation 25, renumbered as regulation 24: Gazette 10 Jan 1986 p. 138; amended: Gazette 8 Oct 1993 p. 5437.]
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