The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Rail-weighbridges) Regulations 2003

Automatic Rail-weighbridges imported from [F1 an EEA State] E+W+S

8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), in relation to an automatic rail-weighbridge imported into Great Britain from [F2 an EEA State], an inspector shall not carry out any test relating to initial verification testing if, together with the weighbridge being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.

(2) In this regulation and regulation 9(2)—

(a) “requisite documentation” means—

(i) the test report of an approved body that the weighbridge which is the subject of that report has been tested on the same basis as the procedure specified in clause 5.2 (initial verification) of Part 1 of OIML R 106 or on an equivalent basis, and stating which tests have been applied to it; and

(ii) the test results relating to those tests;

where a body is an “approved body” if it is a body in [F3 an EEA State] which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of automatic rail-weighbridges or is a laboratory which has been accredited in an EEA State in relation to automatic rail-weighbridges as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000 M1 ; and

(b) “EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement F4 ...; and in this paragraph “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993.

(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector carrying out initial verification testing where he is not satisfied—

(a) as to the authenticity of the test report or the results presented to him; or

(b) that the test results presented to him are results which in fact relate to the weighbridge being imported; or

(c) subject to regulation 7(4), that the weighbridge has not been dismantled after the tests to which the test report relates were carried out.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 8 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 13(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 13(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in reg. 8(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 13(2)(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Words in reg. 8(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 13(2)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000 is the international standard “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories” (ISBN O 580 34929 2).