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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalisting Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986, Section 31.
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31.—[F1(1) No discontinuous totaliser shall be tested, passed as fit for use for trade and stamped unless either—E+W+S
(a)it has been completely erected ready for use and installed at the place where it is to be used, or
(b)it has been completely erected ready for use in conditions which are in all material respects the same as those at the place where it is to be used and it is not to be dismantled before it is installed at that place.]
(2) Every discontinuous totaliser submitted for testing shall be in a clean condition.
(3) For the purposes of the performance by an inspector of his functions under the Act or these Regulations relating to inspection, testing, passing as fit for use for trade and stamping of any discontinuous totaliser, a person submitting such a machine to an inspector or who an inspector has reasonable cause to believe has control of such a machine for use for trade shall, if requested, provide for the inspector's use [F2a non-automatic weighing machine which meets the requirements of [F3paragraph 5 in Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations] and such material as the inspector may reasonably require; and any such machine and material so provided shall be returned to the person in question].
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F1Reg. 31(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, 7(a)
F2Words in reg. 31(3) substituted (29.4.1996) by The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/797), regs. 1, 7(b)
F3Words in reg. 31(3) substituted (17.3.2000) by The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/387), regs. 1, 2(4)
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