The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Catchweighing Instruments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Automatic catchweighing instruments imported from an EEA State

9.—(1) In relation to an automatic catchweighing instrument imported into Northern Ireland (whether directly or indirectly through Great Britain) from an EEA State, subject to paragraph (3), an inspector shall not carry out any test relating to initial verification testing if, together with the automatic catchweighing instrument being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.

(2) In this regulation and regulation 10(2)—

(a) “requisite documentation” means—

(i) the test report of an approved body that the automatic catchweighing instrument which is the subject of that report has been tested on the same basis as the procedure specified in clause 5.3 (initial verification) of Part 1 of OIML R51 or on an equivalent basis, and stating which tests have been applied to it; and

(ii) the test results relating to those tests;

(b) “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; and

(c) 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 automatic catchweighing instruments or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing automatic catchweighing instruments 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 17025:2005(1).

(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector carrying out initial verification testing where he is not satisfied—

(a) as to the authenticity of the test report or the results presented to him; or

(b) that the test results presented to him are results which in fact relate to the automatic catchweighing instrument being imported; or

(c) subject to regulation 8(4), that the automatic catchweighing instrument has not been dismantled after the tests to which the test report relates were carried out.

(1)

BS EN ISO/1EC 17025:2005 is the international standard “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories” (ISBN 0 580 46330 3).