Part II Weighing and Measuring for Trade

Weighing or measuring equipment for use for trade

F111B Testing by official EEA testers.

1

This section applies where–

a

any equipment which has been tested by an official EEA tester is at any time submitted to an inspector under section 11(4) above,

b

the test report of the official EEA tester is submitted to the inspector at that time, and

c

that report states which tests have been applied to the equipment and sets out the results of those tests.

2

Section 11 above shall have effect as if–

a

paragraph (a) of subsection (4) required the inspector not to test the equipment in the manner mentioned in that paragraph,

b

paragraphs (b) and (c) of that subsection required him to rely, for the purposes of those paragraphs, on the test report of the official EEA tester, and

c

the reference in subsection (5) to any test carried out under subsection (4) were a reference to anything done under subsection (4).

3

In this section ’official EEA tester’, in relation to the testing of equipment of any description, means a person who, at the time when the tests were applied–

a

had responsibility in an EEA State for the metrological control of equipment of that description, or

b

was accredited in an EEA State as a person operating a laboratory, in conformity with the criteria set out in the applicable European Standard, for the purpose of testing equipment of that description.

4

In subsection (3) above ’EEA State’ means a Contracting Party to 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.