Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of the Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986

4.  For regulation 24 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Passing as fit for use for trade

24.— (1) Save in the case of measures of length imported from another member State or an EEA State, a measure of length shall not be passed as fit for use for trade unless—

(a) on testing,—

(i) it falls within the prescribed limits of error;

(ii) it is constructed in a manner which does not facilitate fraudulent use and it does not bear any decorations or designs which might cause confusion in use; and

(iii) it complies with all the appropriate requirements of these Regulations; or

(b) in the case of a measure of length which has not been tested, it forms part of a group of measures treated under regulation 22A as having satisfied the test or tests therein mentioned.

(2) In the case of measures of length imported from another member State or from an EEA State, a measure of length shall not be passed as fit for use for trade unless—

(a) either—

(i) where the requisite documentation is presented in accordance with regulation 22B, the test report recites and the test data confirm to the satisfaction of the inspector that on testing in accordance with the provisions of the law of a member State or an EEA State the measure falls within the prescribed limits of error;

(ii) in the case of a measure of length which has not been tested, it forms part of a group of measures treated under regulation 22A as having satisfied the test or tests therein mentioned; or

(iii) it complies with all the relevant requirements of these Regulations; and

(b) it is constructed in a manner which does not facilitate fraudulent use and it does not bear any decorations or designs which might cause confusion in use.”.