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2004 No. 189

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

  Made 23rd April 2004 
  Coming into operation 24th May 2004 

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment[1], in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13(1) of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[2] and now vested in it[3] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 24th May 2004.

Amendment of the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986
    
2.  - (1) The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986[4] shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

    (2) In regulation 22(2), after the words "without having been dismantled", there shall be added the following words -

    (3) After regulation 23, there shall be added the following regulation -

    (4) In paragraph (2) of regulation 34 -



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on


23rd April 2004.

L.S.


M. Bohill
A senior officer of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


These Regulations further amend the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 ("the 1986 Regulations").

Regulation 2 amends regulation 22(2) of the 1986 Regulations to provide an additional exception under which an inspector may test a filling machine notwithstanding the fact that the conditions for testing otherwise laid down are not met. This exception is where a dismantling and re-assembly or transportation of a filling machine could not affect the accuracy or functioning of that filling machine. A new regulation 23A is inserted in respect of filling machines imported from another member State or EEA State (whether directly or indirectly through Great Britain) which provides that a filling machine shall not be tested by the inspector when an inspector is presented with the "requisite documentation" (as defined in paragraph (2)(a) of that regulation), unless he is not satisfied as regard to the information contained in the requisite documentation.

A minor correction and several consequential amendments are made by regulation 2(4).

The Regulations have been notified in draft to the European Commission pursuant to Directive 98/34/EC (O.J. No. L204, 21.7.98, p. 37) as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (O.J. No. L217, 5.8.98, p. 18).


Notes:

[1] Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Art. 3(5)back

[2] S.I. 1981/231 (N.I. 10) as amended by 2000 c. 5 (N.I.)back

[3] By S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11) Art. 4back

[4] S.R. 1986 No. 311 as amended by S.R. 1995 No. 228, S.R. 1998 No. 374 and S.R. 2002 No. 71back

[5] EN 45001 is a European Standard which has the status of a British Standard; it is identical with BS 7501 (ISBN 0 580 17939 7), "General criteria for the operation of testing laboratories"back



ISBN 0 33795503 4


  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 5 May 2004


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