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The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalisting Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986
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[F1PART IIU.K.testing— using a separate non-automatic weighing machine
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6.—(1) The tests specified in sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) below shall be carried out on a discontinuous totaliser under normal conditions of use.U.K.
(2) A minimum of three individual tests (including at least one at minimum load and at least one at maximum capacity) shall be carried out, each test involving the weighing of a quantity of suitable material as nearly as practicable equal to the minimum totalised load marked on the machine.
(3) In the case only of a discontinuous totaliser first passed as fit for use for trade before 29th April 1996, and if the person submitting it for testing so requests, the test at maximum capacity under sub-paragraph (2) above may be made with twenty separate loads and the words “as nearly as practicable equal to the minimum totalised load marked on the machine” in that sub-paragraph shall not have effect.
(4) Unless already included in the tests carried out under sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above two further tests (which shall include at least five weighing cycles and a quantity of material not less than the minimum totalised load) shall be carried out, one at the minimum load and one at the maximum capacity.
(5) For each of the tests carried out under sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) above, the inspector shall determine—
(a)the weight of material used in the test using the arrangements referred to in paragraph 5 above;
(b)the material testing error by ascertaining the difference between the weight of the material determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above and the value of the weight of the material obtained from the totalisation indicating device.]
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