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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1986.
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means
“analogue” means
“automatic weighing machine” means
“certificate of approval” means
[F1“Class”, in relation to a discontinuous totaliser, means the Class of accuracy specified in the first column of Table 2 in Schedule 3 to these Regulations which corresponds to the limits of error specified in the second and third columns of that Table;]
“device for interpolation of reading” means
“digital” means
“discontinuous totaliser” means
“filling machine” means
“level indicating device” means
“live part” means
“load receptor” means
“material testing” means
“maximum capacity” means
“maximum net capacity” means
“minimum load” means
“minimum totalised load” means
“non-automatic zero-setting device” means
“non-automatic weighing machine” means
“notice of examination” means
“prescribed limits of error”
“rider” means
“scale interval” means
in the case of a machine with an analogue device, the smallest sub-division of the scale; or
in the case of a machine with a digital device, the smallest difference between two consecutive values indicated by the machine;
“semi-automatic zero-setting device” means
“the stamp” means
“tare device” means
“test load” means
[F2“totalisation scale interval” means the value, expressed in units of mass, of the scale interval of the principal totalisation indicating device of the machine, that is to say, the part of the machine which indicates the sum of all the loads weighed and discharged to bulk;]
“weighing unit” means
“weight indicating device” means
“weight printing device”
(2) The abbreviations of, and symbols for, units of measurement used in these Regulations refer to the relevant units as follows:—
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) added (29.4.1996) by The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/797), regs. 1, 2(a)
F2Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (29.4.1996) by The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/797), regs. 1, 2(b)
F3Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (1.1.2000) by virtue of The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1851), regs. 1, 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3
Commencement Information
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, Parts II and V of these Regulations apply to all automatic weighing machines of the following description namely filling machines and discontinuous totalisers, Part III applies to filling machines and Part IV to discontinuous totalisers, for use for trade, and such machines are hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 11(1) of the Act.
(2) Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to any automatic weighing machine for use only for making up packages if, and only if, the packages are subsequently checked in accordance with section 49(1)(b) of the Act, and in this paragraph “packages” means
(3) The Weights and Measures Regulations 1963(2) are hereby amended in Regulation 1(2) by the addition after sub-paragraph (h) of the following sub-paragraph:—
“(i)filling machines and discontinuous totalisers to which the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986 apply, except in so for as such machines and totalisers are capable of also being used as a counter machine, platform weighing machine or weighbridge.”.
4. No person shall use for trade an automatic weighing machine except for the purpose of weighing material the values of which, expressed in units of measurement of mass, are neither less than the value of the minimum load and the minimum totalised load nor more than the value of the maximum capacity.
See S.I. 1968/1615.
Regulation 1(2) was amended by S.I. 1977/1932, 1979/1612, 1983/914, 1655.