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