Non-automatic Weighing Machines and Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991 (“the 1991 Regulations”) to forbid the use for trade of equipment outside its prescribed weighing range in relation to gold and other precious metals, precious stones or pearls and drugs and other pharmaceutical products (regulation 3).

They also amend the 1991 Regulations to permit the import of non-automatic weighing machines which have been tested in another member State or an EEA State on the same basis as is required by those Regulations (regulations 4 and 6).

These Regulations amend, in addition, the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”) which implement Council Directive 90/384/EEC (as amended by Council Directive 93/68/EEC) on the harmonisation of the laws of the member States relating to non-automatic weighing instruments in so far as they relate to instruments in use for trade covered by the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1995.

They amend the 1992 Regulations to forbid the use for trade of instruments outside their prescribed weighing range in relation to gold and other precious metals, precious stones or pearls and drugs and other pharmaceutical products (regulation 9) and forbid the use for trade on and after 1st January 2000 of instruments having weight scale intervals expressed in decimal parts of a pound save by way of supplementary indication of weight (regulation 10).