Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Capacity measures imported from another member State or EEA State

13.—(1) In relation to capacity measures imported into Northern Ireland from another member State or from an EEA State, subject to paragraph (4), an inspector shall not carry out any test in accordance with the provisions of regulations 8 to 12 if, together with the capacity measures being so imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.

(2) In this regulation and in regulation 16 “requisite documentation” means—

(a) the test report of an approved body that the capacity measures which are the subject of that report have been tested on the same basis as those set out in regulations 8 to 12 and stating which tests have been applied to them; and

(b) the test results relating to those tests.

(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purpose of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has the responsibility in that State for metrological control of capacity measures or is a laboratory which has been accredited in a member State or an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in EN 45001(1).

(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector testing in accordance with regulations 8 to 12 where he is not satisfied—

(a) as to the authenticity of the test report or the results presented to him; or

(b) that the test results presented to him are results which in fact relate to the capacity measures being imported.

(1)

EN 45001 is a European Standard which has the status of a British Standard; it is identical with BS 7501 (ISBN 0 580 17939 7), “General criteria for the operation of testing laboratories”