SCHEDULE 1ACCURACY CLASSIFICATION OF NON-AUTOMATIC WEIGHING MACHINES

PART VMachines Designated Class IIII

16

A machine which is—

a

made in accordance with an approved pattern and which is or could be marked

Image_r00010

, or

b

first stamped before 1st August 1991 in accordance with the provisions for crane weighing machines constructed upon the hydraulic principle in the Weights and Measures Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1967, or

c

of the type referred to as “approximate weighers” and first stamped before 1st August 1991, or

d

of a type referred to as “common form” and which was first stamped before 1st August 1991,

is a Class IIII machine.

17

The specifications for non-graduated and graduated Class IIII machines are given in Table 4.

Table 4

Maximum capacityMax

Lower limit of the minimum loadMin

Scale intervald

Number of scale intervalsn

Verification scale intervale

Non-graduated machines

400 g ≤ Max <2 kg

10 e

5 g

2 kg ≤ Max

10 e

Max

400

Graduated machines

Non-self indicating machines

400 g ≤ Max <2 kg

10 d

5 g ≤ d ≤ 10 g

80 ≤ n <400

5 g

2 kg ≤ Max <4 t

10 d

10 g ≤ d ≤ 10 kg

100 ≤ n <400

Max

400

2 kg ≤ Max ≤ 10 t

10 d

5 g ≤ d ≤ 10 kg

400 ≤ n ≤ 1 000

d

4 t ≤ Max

10 d

20 kg ≤ d

200 ≤ n < 400

Max

400

8 t ≤ Max

10 d

20 kg ≤ d

400 ≤ n ≤ 1 000

d

Self and semi- self indicating machines

400 g ≤ Max ≤ 10 t

10 d

2 g ≤ d ≤ 10 kg

60 ≤ n ≤ 1 000

d

4 t ≤ Max

10 d

20 kg ≤ d

200 ≤ n ≤ 1 000

d