“the 1985 Act” means the Weights and Measures Act 1985;

“approved body” means—

1. (i)

   a body which is designated by the Secretary of State under regulation 9(1) for the purpose of carrying out one or more of the tasks referred to in article 8 of the Directive; or

2. (ii)

   a body which is designated for that purpose by another member State,

and whose name is notified to the Commission and the member States under article 9 of the Directive;

“approved quality system” means a quality system approved under regulation 13 or under a corresponding provision of the law of another member State;

“approved type” means a type in respect of which an EC type-approval certificate is in force;

“authorised person” means an inspector, or some other person employed by a local weights and measures authority, who is authorised by the chief inspector of weights and measures of that authority to exercise functions under these Regulations in its area;

“the Community” means the European Economic Community;

“the Commission” means the Commission of the European Communities;

“design documentation” means the documentation referred to in Annex III of the Directive which is set out in Schedule 1;

“disqualification sticker” means—

1. (i)

   a sticker of which the design is published in the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State; or

2. (ii)

   a sticker, symbol or other device of which the design is approved in another member State by the competent authority,

and which indicates that an instrument to which it is affixed does not satisfy the requirements of regulation 5 or of corresponding provisions under the law of another member State;

“EC declaration of type conformity” means the declaration of type conformity referred to in regulation 13(7);

“EC mark of conformity” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 18(5);

“EC surveillance” means the procedure whereby an approved body ensures that a manufacturer who makes an EC declaration of type conformity in respect of instruments manufactured by him properly fulfils the obligations arising out of the approved quality system specified in paragraph 2 of Annex II of the Directive;

“EC type-approval certificate” means a certificate issued by the Secretary of State under regulation 10 or by an approved body designated by another member State, as the case may be;

“EC type-examination” means the procedure whereby the Secretary of State verifies and certifies that a type conforms with the provisions of the Directive which apply to it;

“EC unit verification” means the procedure whereby the Secretary of State (or, as the case may require, an approved body designated for that purpose by a member State other than the United Kingdom) checks and attests in accordance with paragraph 4 of Annex II of the Directive that an instrument satisfies the requirements of the Directive which apply to it;

“EC verification” means the procedure whereby an approved body checks and attests in accordance with paragraph 3 of Annex II of the Directive that an instrument satisfies the requirements of the Directive which apply to it;

“essential requirements” means the requirements in Annex I of the Directive which is set out in Schedule 2;

“identification symbol” means a symbol incorporating the number assigned by the Commission to the Secretary of State or to the approved body in question, as the case may be;

“inscription” means, as the case may require, an inscription referred to in regulation 18(3)(c) or (d);

“instrument” means a non-automatic weighing instrument (including ancillary equipment) which—

1. (i)

   requires the intervention of an operator during weighing, and

2. (ii)

   serves to determine the mass or weight of any thing by using the action of gravity on that thing (whether or not it may also determine related matters such as price, quantity or magnitude on the basis of mass or weight);

“load receptor” means a part of a machine on which loads are placed for the purpose of their being weighed;

“quality system” means all the elements, requirements and provisions adopted by the manufacturer to ensure conformity of instruments with the approved type and the requirements of the Directive which apply to them and includes, in particular,—

1. (i)

   the quality objectives and the organisational structure, responsibilities and powers of the managerial staff with regard to product quality,

2. (ii)

   the manufacturing process, the quality control and assurance techniques and the systematic measures that will be used during manufacture,

3. (iii)

   the examinations and tests that will be carried out before, during and after manufacture and the frequency with which they will be carried out, and

4. (iv)

   the means to monitor the achievement of the required product quality and the effective operation of the quality system;

“relevant national standard” means a standard which is applicable to the instrument in question and of which the reference number is published—

1. (i)

   in the United Kingdom, by the Secretary of State in such manner as he considers appropriate, or

2. (ii)

   in another member State, by the competent authority,

and which corresponds to a harmonised standard the reference number of which is published in the Official Journal of the European Communities;

“re-qualification sticker” means a sticker of which the design is published by the Secretary of State and which indicates that an instrument to which it is affixed (being an instrument to which a disqualification sticker has previously been affixed) satisfies the requirements of regulation 5;

“Schedule 3 application”, in relation to an instrument, means an application described in Schedule 3;

“sticker”, except in the definitions of “disqualification sticker” and “re-qualification sticker”, means a green sticker measuring at least 12.5 mm by 12.5 mm square bearing a capital letter “M” printed in black and referred to in paragraph 1 of Annex IV of the Directive; and “type” has the meaning given by regulation 10(1), and other expressions used in these Regulations have the same meanings as in the 1985 Act or, in Northern Ireland, the 1981 Order.