Amendment of the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 198610

In regulation 33, there shall be substituted for paragraph (2) the following paragraphs—

2

In the case—

a

of a discontinuous totaliser first passed as fit for use for trade on or after 8th December 1998, the prescribed limits of error relating to the several Classes specified in the first column in Table 2 in Schedule 3 shall be those respectively set out in the second and third columns of that Table; and

b

of a discontinuous totaliser first passed as fit for use for trade before 8th December 1998, the prescribed limits of error shall be those so set out in relation to Class 1.

3

For the purposes of the enforcement of these Regulations, a discontinuous totaliser which is marked in accordance with regulation 25 as of a specified Class shall be treated as falling within that Class.