PART IGENERAL
Citation, commencement and revocation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 and shall come into operation on 27th October 1986.
(2) The Regulations specified in column 1 of the Schedule are hereby revoked to the extent specified in column 2.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“composite measure” means a measure of length where one of its principal scale marks is a surface and the other is a line, hole or mark;
“end measure” means a measure of length where its principal scale marks are formed by two surfaces;
“measure of length” means a linear measure set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to the Order;
“nominal length” means the maximum length in metric or imperial units which a measure of length is designed to measure in one measurement;
“prescribed limits of error” has the meaning set out in Regulation 23;
“the Order” means the Weights arid Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;
“principal scale marks” mean the two surfaces, lines, holes or marks (or combinations thereof) on a measure of length the distance between which is the nominal length of the measure;
“the stamp” means the stamp prescribed by the Weights and Measures (Prescribed Stamp) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1969(1); and
“terminal surface” means a surface forming one of the principal scale marks.
Application of Regulations and prescription of measures of length
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply to measuring equipment for use for trade of the following class name! y measures of length and such measures are hereby prescribed for the purposes of Article 9(1) of the Order.
(2) Except for this paragraph, paragraph (3) and Regulation 19, these Regulations do not apply to measures of length which bear the mark of EEC initial verification.
(3) In paragraph (2), “mark of EEC initial verification” means the mark described in paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1980(2).
S.I. 1980/1058; the relevant amending Regulations are S.I. 1985/1871