The Weights and Measures (Standards Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE Regulations Amended

1.  In regulation 55A of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel by Road Tanker) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984(1), for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of measuring equipment on road tankers or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing measuring equipment on road tankers in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000(2).”.

2.  The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986(3) shall be amended as follows –

(i) for paragraph (3) of regulation 23A there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of filling machines or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing filling machines in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.”; and

(ii) for paragraph (3) of regulation 32A there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of discontinuous totalisers or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing discontinuous totalisers in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.”.

3.  In regulation 22B of the Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986(4), for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of measures of length or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing measures of length in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.”.

4.  Regulation 19 of the Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(5) shall be amended as follows –

(i) in paragraph (1), after the words “member State” there shall be inserted the words “or an EEA State”; and

(ii) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs –

“(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of capacity serving measures or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing capacity serving measures in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.

(3A) In this regulation, “EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement other than the United Kingdom, 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.”.

5.  In regulation 13 of the Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(6), for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this re gulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of capacity measures or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing capacity measures in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.”.

6.  In regulation 16 of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(7), for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of measuring equipment for liquid fuel and lubricants or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing measuring equipment for liquid fuel and lubricants in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.”.

(1)

S.R. 1984 No. 117; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 220

(2)

BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000 is the international standard “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories” (ISBN 0 580 34929 2)

(3)

S.R. 1986 No. 311; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1998 No. 374 and S.R. 2004 No. 189

(4)

S.R. 1986 No. 308; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1999 No. 160

(5)

S.R.1993 No. 441 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

(6)

S.R. 1998 No. 48 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

(7)

S.R. 1998 No. 113 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations