The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalisting Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986

37.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, an inspector shall obliterate the stamp on any automatic weighing machine which—E+W+S

(a)fails upon testing to fall within the prescribed limits of error in relation to obliteration of the stamp; or

(b)fails to comply with any other appropriate requirement of these Regulations.

(2) Except as provided by Regulation 38 below, where any automatic weighing machine does not fully comply with the requirements of these Regulations, but the nature or degree of the non-compliance is not, in the inspector's opinion, such as to require the immediate obliteration of the stamp, he shall give to the proprietor or any person in control of the machine a notice calling on him to have the machine corrected within a stated period not exceeding 28 days, and shall obliterate the stamp if the correction has not been made within the stated period.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 37 in force at 1.9.1986, see reg. 1