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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2005 No. 472

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

  Made 28th October 2005 
  Coming into operation 5th December 2005 

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment[1] in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 9(1) and (3) and 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 Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.

Amendment of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
    
2. The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998[4] shall be amended as provided in regulations 3 to 11.

Sales indicators
     3. For regulation 5 there shall be substituted the following regulation –

Indication of product delivered
    
4. After regulation 5 there shall be added the following regulation –

Markings on equipment
    
5. In regulation 7(b), between "measuring equipment referring to the method of operation or to the" and "quantity of liquid fuel delivered" there shall be inserted the words "product or to the".

Relaxation of requirement to test at low flow rate
    
6. —(1) In regulation 8A(3) –

    (2) After regulation 8(A)(3) there shall be added the following paragraph –

Prescribed limits of error
    
7. For paragraph 5 of regulation 15 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

Inspector to attach test report
    
8. After regulation 15, there shall be added the following regulation –

Measuring equipment imported from an EEA State
    
9. For regulation 16 there shall be substituted the following regulation –

     10. In regulation 17(2), the words " another member State or" shall be omitted.

Revocation of regulation 24
    
11. Regulation 24 shall be revoked.



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


28th October 2005.

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 amend the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (the "1998 Regulations").

The Regulations prescribe the tests an inspector of weights and measures shall apply to measuring equipment with a view to passing it as fit for use for trade and stamping it.

The Regulations also make a number of other minor amendments.

The Regulations have been notified 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. 1998 No. 113 as amended by S.R. 2002 No. 71 and S.R. 2003 No. 422back



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 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 8 November 2005


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