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The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Weights and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1986
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7. Testing equipment consisting of weighing equipment used for testing working standard weights, test weights and egg grading machine test poises shall comply with the following requirements:
(a)the discrimination threshold of the testing equipment used shall not exceed one-fifth of the relevant amount specified in Tables 1 to 6 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations as the limit of error for the weight being tested, or, in the case of an egg grading machine test poise, 7 mg, and
(b)the repeatability of the testing equipment shall be such that the 95 per cent. confidence interval of a single reading does not exceed one-fifth of the relevant amount specified in Tables 1 to 6 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations as the limit of error for the weight being tested, or, in the case of an egg grading machine test poise, 7 mg.
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