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The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule
Publication 2006-01-13
Last updated 2011-11-01
State In force
Jurisdiction Northern Ireland
Department Government Printer for Northern Ireland
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Locking or relieving gear testing

19

  • (a) Load and weight receptors which have associated locking or relieving devices shall, when supporting one-half of their maximum load, be eased into and out of lock or relief. This action must not cause the machine, in its unlocked or unrelieved position, to give any indication or printout which is in error by more than the appropriate prescribed limit of error.
  • (b) Such devices must not be able to be placed in intermediate positions.

Backbalance testing

20

  • (a) Backbalance testing shall be carried out only on accelerating machines.
  • (b) In backbalance testing the maximum load shall first be placed on the load receptor and the machine balanced so that the beam or indicating element only just maintains its horizontal position on its stop or carrier. The beam or indicating element shall then be moved to its position of greatest displacement from the horizontal position, after which the load on the load receptor shall be reduced by the minimum amount which is required to restore the beam or indicating element to its horizontal position.
  • (c) The minimum amount which is required to be removed from the load receptor must not exceed three times the verification scale interval of the machine.

SCHEDULE 3 — PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF ERROR

1

Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the prescribed limits of error expressed in terms of “e”, the relevant verification scale interval of the device under test, shall be those set out in the Table.

Limits of error in excess or deficiency Limits of error in excess or deficiency
Classification of Machine upon passing as fit for use for trade in relation to the obliteration of stamps Number of verification scale intervals for loads – see Note
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4
Class I
(first part) 0.5 e 1 e Not more than 50 000 e
(second part) 1 e 2 e more than 50 000 e and not more than 200 000 e
(third part) 1.5 e 3 e more than 200 000 e
Class II
(first part) 0.5 e 1 e Not more than 5 000 e
(second part) 1 e 2 e more than 5 000 e and not more than 20 000 e
(third part) 1.5 e 3 e more than 20 000 e
Class III
(first part) 0.5 e 1 e Not more than 500 e
(second part) 1 e 2 e more than 500 e and not more than 2 000 e
(third part) 1.5 e 3 e more than 2 000 e
Class IIII
(first part) 0.5 e 1 e Not more than 50 e
(second part) 1 e 2 e more than 50 e and not more than 200 e
(third part) 1.5 e 3 e more than 200 e

Note

When testing a weight indicating or printing device, in a weighing mode in which tare devices other than those within paragraph (b) of the definition of “tare device” in regulation 2 are operable, the ranges listed in column 4 of the Table shall be increased by the corresponding tare value.

2

An indicating or printing device which, in any single weighing mode, has more than one verification scale interval, each of which relates exclusively to a particular part of the weighing range, shall have, for each particular part, those error allowances which would apply if the complete weighing range had the verification scale interval which relates to that particular part.

3

In the case where—

  • (a) a machine has had its stamp obliterated under regulation 43(2) because of an alteration or adjustment involving only the replacement or addition of a dial, chart or pointer, and
  • (b) the purpose of the alteration or adjustment was to modify an imperial machine to indicate weight in metric units, and
  • (c) the appropriate prescribed limits of error upon the first retesting of such a machine with a view to its being passed as fit for use for trade shall be those set out in the Table in paragraph 1 as being applicable in relation to the obliteration of stamps.
  • (i) within the period of fifteen days following the making of the alteration or adjustment the requirements of paragraph 4 were complied with, or
  • (ii) the period for complying with those requirements has not yet expired,

4

The requirements referred to in paragraph 3(c)(i) are that the chief inspector of weights and measures is furnished by the person carrying out the alteration or adjustment with the following particulars, namely—

  • (a) his name and address;
  • (b) particulars by which the machine may be identified;
  • (c) the name and address of the person who will first use the machine for trade after its alteration or adjustment and the address at which it will be so used or, if those particulars are not known, an address at which the machine will be available for inspection;
  • (d) confirmation that the modification consisted only of the replacement or addition of a chart, dial or pointer.

SCHEDULE 4 — REGULATIONS REVOKED

  • The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 except regulation 46 and Schedule 1.
  • The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992.
  • The Non-automatic Weighing Machines and Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.
  • In Parts I and III of the Schedule to the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995, the amendments of the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 13th January 2006.

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 consolidate with minor amendments the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 (S.R. 1991 No. 266) (as amended by the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (S.R. 1992 No. 537), the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 228) and the Non-automatic Weighing Machines and Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (S.R. 1996 No. 320)).

The Regulations continue to prescribe non-automatic weighing machines for the purposes of Article 9(1) of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (the “1981 Order”) (regulation 3(1)). The effect of prescription is to make it unlawful to use such machines for trade purposes unless they have been tested, passed as fit for such use and stamped by an inspector of weights and measures, or by an approved verifier under the terms of the 1981 Order as amended by the Weights and Measures (Amendment) Act 2000 (2000 c. 5). These requirements of prescription are also in general satisfied by a non-automatic weighing machine complying with:

  • (a) Council Directive No. 73/360/EEC, as amended, on non-automatic weighing machines and bearing the mark of EEC initial verification and, where appropriate, the sign of EEC pattern approval. This mark and sign are described in Schedule 1 to the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1988/186); or
  • (b) Council Directive No. 90/384/EEC, as amended, on non-automatic weighing instruments and satisfying the essential requirements set out in Annex I of the Directive.

The Regulations make provision as to:

  • (a) the purposes for which such non-automatic weighing machines may be used for trade (regulation 4);
  • (b) the materials and principles of construction of them and their marking (regulations 5 to 22 and Schedule 1);
  • (c) the manner of erection and use of them for trade (regulations 23 to 31);
  • (d) their testing, passing as fit for use for trade and stamping and the obliteration of such stamps (regulations 37 and 39 to 46 and Schedule 2); and
  • (e) the prescribed limits of error (regulation 38 and Schedule 3).

Footnotes

1

Formerly known as the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Art. 3(5)

9

S.I. 1980/1070; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1980/1742

10

S.I. 1978/484; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1980/1742

11

O.J. No. L84, 28.3.1974, p. 3

12

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”

Editorial notes

13

Reg. 18 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

14

Reg. 1 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

15

Reg. 2 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

16

Reg. 3 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

17

Reg. 4 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

18

Reg. 5 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

19

Reg. 6 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

20

Reg. 7 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

21

Reg. 8 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

22

Reg. 9 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

23

Reg. 10 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

24

Reg. 11 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

25

Reg. 12 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

26

Reg. 13 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

27

Reg. 14 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

28

Reg. 15 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

29

Reg. 16 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

30

Reg. 17 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

31

Reg. 19 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

32

Reg. 20 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

33

Reg. 21 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

34

Reg. 22 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

35

Reg. 23 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

36

Reg. 24 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

37

Reg. 25 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

38

Reg. 26 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

39

Reg. 27 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

40

Reg. 28 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

41

Reg. 29 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

42

Reg. 30 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

43

Reg. 31 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

44

Reg. 32 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

45

Reg. 33 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

46

Reg. 34 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

47

Reg. 35 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

48

Reg. 36 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

49

Reg. 37 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

50

Reg. 38 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

51

Reg. 39 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

52

Reg. 40 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

53

Reg. 41 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

54

Reg. 42 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

55

Reg. 43 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

56

Reg. 44 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

57

Reg. 45 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

58

Reg. 46 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

59

Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 1 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

60

Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 2 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

61

Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 3 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

62

Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 4 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

63

Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 5 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

64

Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 6 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

65

Sch. 1 para. 7 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

66

Sch. 1 para. 8 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

67

Sch. 1 para. 9 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

68

Sch. 1 para. 10 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

69

Sch. 1 para. 11 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

70

Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 1 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

71

Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 2 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

72

Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 3 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

73

Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 4 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

74

Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 5 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

75

Sch. 1 para. 12 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

76

Sch. 1 para. 13 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

77

Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 1 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

78

Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 2 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

79

Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 3 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

80

Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 4 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

81

Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 5 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

82

Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 6 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

83

Sch. 1 para. 14 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

84

Sch. 1 para. 15 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

85

Sch. 1 para. 16 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

86

Sch. 1 para. 17 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

87

Sch. 2 para. 1 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

88

Sch. 2 para. 2 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

89

Sch. 2 para. 3 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

90

Sch. 2 para. 4 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

91

Sch. 2 para. 5 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

92

Sch. 2 para. 6 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

93

Sch. 2 para. 7 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

94

Sch. 2 para. 8 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

95

Sch. 2 para. 9 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

96

Sch. 2 para. 10 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

97

Sch. 2 para. 11 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

98

Sch. 2 para. 12 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

99

Sch. 2 para. 13 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

100

Sch. 2 para. 14 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

101

Sch. 2 para. 15 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

102

Sch. 2 para. 16 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

103

Sch. 2 para. 17 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

104

Sch. 2 para. 18 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

105

Sch. 2 para. 19 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

106

Sch. 2 para. 20 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

107

Sch. 3 para. 1n1 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

108

Sch. 3 para. 2 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

109

Sch. 3 para. 3 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

110

Sch. 3 para. 4 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

111

Sch. 4 in operation at 13.2.2006, see reg. 1(1)

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