The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made: 9th September 1991

Laid before Parliament: 10th September 1991

Coming into force: 10th September 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 15(1) and 86(1) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on10th September 1991.

2

The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1988[^f00002] are hereby further amended as follows–

• (a) in regulation 4(1), for the words “1st September 1991”, there shall be substituted the words “30th December 1992”;

• (b) in regulation 11(4), for the words “section 14(3)” where they first occur, there shall be substituted the words “section 15(5)”;

• (c) in regulation 35(2) for the words “as from 1st September 1991”, there shall be substituted the words “on and after 30th December 1992”; and

• (d) in Schedule 4, in paragraph 3(a), for the word “Regulation 41(1)”, there shall be substituted the words “regulation 41(2)”.

Signed

Edward Leigh — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Trade and Industry — 9th September 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1988. They correct drafting errors and make the following changes of substance–

• (a) they defer from 1st September 1991 to 30th December 1992 the prohibition on the use for trade of a weighing machine marked with a weighing range for the purpose of determining the mass of loads which are outside that range (regulation 2(a)); and

• (b) in the case of a machine marked with an approved minimum load, they defer for a similar period the disapplication of provisions relating to limits of error for test loads of lower amounts (regulation 2(c)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c. 72.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1988/876, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.