PART 1INTRODUCTORY
Application of these Regulations3
1
Subject to regulation 4 (revocations and transitional and consequential provisions), these Regulations apply to non-automatic weighing instruments.
2
These Regulations, except Part 4, apply to an instrument (referred to in these Regulations as a “regulated non-automatic weighing instrument”) for use for any of the following purposes—
a
the determination of mass for commercial transactions;
b
the determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration, indemnity or similar type of payment;
c
the determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations or for an expert opinion given in court proceedings;
d
the determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment;
e
the determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determination of mass in analyses carried out in medical and pharmaceutical laboratories; and
f
the determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the making up of prepackages.
3
Part 4 applies to a non-automatic weighing instrument that is not a regulated instrument.