55A.—(1) In relation to measuring equipment imported into Great Britain from [F3a member State] or from an EEA State, subject to paragraph (4) below, an inspector shall not carry out any test in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of these Regulations if, together with the measuring equipment being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.
(2) In this Regulation and in Regulation 57(2) below—
(a)“requisite documentation” means—
(i)the test report of an approved body stating that the measuring equipment which is the subject of that report has been tested in accordance with the tests mentioned in this Part of these Regulations and stating which tests have been applied to that measuring equipment; and
(ii)the test results relating to those tests; and
(b)“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement F4...; 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.
[F5(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.]
(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector testing in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of these Regulations where he is not satisfied—
(a)as to the authenticity of the test report or the test results presented to him; or
(b)that those results in fact relate to the measuring equipment being imported.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 55A inserted (29.12.1995) by The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel Delivered from Road Tankers) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3117), regs. 1, 2(3)
F2Words in reg. 55A heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in reg. 55A(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in reg. 55A(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Reg. 55A(3) substituted (28.2.2003) by The Weights and Measures (Standards Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/214), reg. 1, Sch. para. 1