The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1993

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I PRELIMINARY

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Application of Regulations

   4. 4. Use and supply of instruments

   5. 5. Instruments used for Schedule 3 applications to satisfy the essential requirements

   6. 6. Information to be borne by instruments not subject to EC verification, EC unit verification or EC declaration of type conformity

   7. 7. Instruments conforming with relevant national standards

   8. 8. Appropriate equipment for tests

   9. 9. Designation of bodies to exercise functions under the Regulations

3. PART II APPROVAL AND CERTIFICATION OF NON-AUTOMATIC WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS

   1. EXAMINATION AND SUPERVISION

      1. 10. EC type-examination

      2. 11. EC verification

      3. 12. EC unit verification

      4. 13. Quality system approval and EC declaration of type conformity

      5. 14. Provisions supplemental to regulations 11, 12 and 13

      6. 15. EC surveillance

      7. 16. Suspension of EC declaration of type conformity

      8. 17. Withdrawal of approval of quality system

      9. 18. Affixing of EC mark of conformity etc

      10. 19. Conformity with other directives

      11. 20. Wrongful use of EC mark of conformity

   2. REVIEW OF DECISIONS

      1. 21. Review of decisions of authorised persons under Part II

      2. 22. Judicial review of decisions under Part II

   3. ENFORCEMENT

      1. 23. Unauthorised application of EC mark of conformity etc

      2. 24. Disqualification stickers (instruments not complying with these Regulations etc)

      3. 25. Disqualification stickers and re-qualification stickers (instruments which have been altered etc)

      4. 26. Withdrawal from use etc of unsatisfactory instruments

      5. 27. Unsuitable use of instrument used for trade

4. PART III USE FOR TRADE OF NON-AUTOMATIC WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS

   1. 28. Restrictions on use of instruments for trade

   2. 29. Manner of erection of instruments

   3. 30. Instruments marked with temperature range

   4. 31. Instruments marked with manner of use

   5. 32. Instruments fitted with printing devices

   6. 33. Load receptors

   7. 34. Operation of instrument

   8. 35. Weights marked with EEC initial verification marks to be used

   9. 36. Instruments using decimal parts of pound

   10. 37. Instruments to be set to zero or to be balanced before use

5. PART IV GENERAL

   1. 38. Powers of inspection and entry

   2. 39. Obstruction of authorised persons etc

   3. 40. Offences and penalties

   4. 41. Offences by corporations

   5. 42. Prosecutions

   6. 43. Adaptations for Northern Ireland

6. Signature

7. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      ANNEX III OF COUNCIL DIRECTIVE OF 20TH JUNE 1990 ON THE HARMONISATION OF THE LAWS OF MEMBER STATES RELATING TO NON-AUTOMATIC WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      ANNEX I OF COUNCIL DIRECTIVE OF 20TH JUNE 1990 ON THE HARMONISATION OF THE LAWS OF MEMBER STATES RELATING TO NON-AUTOMATIC WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS

      1. Preliminary observation

      2. Metrological requirements

      3. 1. Units of mass

      4. 2. Accuracy classes (2.1) The following accuracy class have been defined:...

      5. 3. Classification (3.1) Instruments with one weighing range Instruments equipped with...

      6. 4. Accuracy (4.1) On implementation of the procedures laid down in...

      7. 5. Weighing results of an instrument shall be repeatable, and shall...

      8. 6. The instrument shall react to small variations in the load....

      9. 7. Influence quantities and time (7.1) Instruments of classes II, III...

      10. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

          1. 8. General requirements (8.1) Design and construction of the instruments shall...

          2. 9. Indication of weighing results and other weight values

          3. 10. Printing of weighing results and other weight values

          4. 11. Levelling

          5. 12. Zeroing

          6. 13. Tare devices and preset tare devices

          7. 14. Instruments for direct sales to the public with a maximum capacity not greater than 100 kg: additional requirements

          8. 15. Price labelling instruments

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      APPLICATIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1(2)(A) OF THE DIRECTIVE

      1. 1. Determination of mass for commercial transactions.

      2. 2. Determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff,...

      3. 3. Determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations...

      4. 4. Determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing...

      5. 5. Determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in...

      6. 6. Determination of price on the basis of mass for the...

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      SPECIMEN FORM OF EC SYMBOL

   5. SCHEDULE 5

      ADAPTATIONS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND

      1. 1. For the purposes of these Regulations, references to a local...

      2. PART I

         1. 2. In regulation 3(2), (a) for head (c) there shall be...

         2. 3. In regulation 3(3), for the reference to the 1985 Act,...

      3. PART II

         1. 4. Regulation 21 shall not have effect and accordingly regulations 16(2)(c)...

         2. 5. In regulation 25(3)(b), the reference to a chief inspector of...

      4. PART III

         1. 6. Part III does not apply to Northern Ireland.

      5. PART IV

         1. 7. In regulation 38— (a) in each of paragraphs (1) and...

         2. 8. For regulation 42 there shall be substituted No proceedings for an offence under Part I or Part...

8. Explanatory Note