The Measuring Instruments (Use for Trade) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

This Statutory Rule has been made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2007 Nos. 383 to 390 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Rules.

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2008 No. 52

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

The Measuring Instruments (Use for Trade) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Made

8th February 2008

Coming into operation

17th March 2008

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment(1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13(1) of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(2) and now vested in it(3).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Measuring Instruments (Use for Trade) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 17th March 2008.

Amendments to Regulations

2.  In each of the Regulations listed in the Schedule, after regulation 2 insert—

“2A.   In these Regulations a reference to member State includes Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 8th February 2008.

M. Bohill

A senior officer of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment

regulation 2

SCHEDULE Regulations to be amended

• The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Catchweighers) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 383)

• The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 384)

• The Measuring Instruments (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 385)

• The Measuring Instruments (Beltweighers) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 386)

• The Measuring Instruments (Capacity Serving Measures) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 387)

• The Measuring Instruments (Liquid Fuel by Road Tanker) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 388)

• The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Discontinuous Totalisers) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 389)

• The Measuring Instruments (Material Measures of Length) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No. 390)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Regulations specified in the Schedule by inserting in each of them a definition of “member State” so as to expressly include Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein in that definition. This means that when an instrument to which any of those Regulations relate is made available in any of these countries it is placed on the market for the purposes of those Regulations.

These Regulations are made in consequence of a defect in the Regulations listed in the Schedule and will be issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Regulations.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Art. 3(5)

(2)

S.I. 1981/231 (N.I. 10) as amended by 2000 c. 5 (N.I.)

(3)

By S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11) Art. 4