PART IGENERAL

Citation, commencement, consequential disapplication and amendment

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 17th July 2000.

(2) The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986(1) are hereby disapplied in respect of any filling instrument which is also a filling machine for the purposes of those Regulations.

(3) For sub-paragraph (i) of regulation 1(2) of the Weights and Measures Regulations 1963(2), there shall be substituted the following–

(i)filling machines and discontinuous totalisers to which the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986 and filling instruments to which the Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000(3) apply, except insofar as such machines, totalisers and filling instruments are capable of also being used as a non-automatic weighing machine;.

(1)

S.I. 1986/1320, amended by S.I. 1994/1851, 1996/797, 2000/387.

(2)

S.I. 1963/1710; regulation 1(2)(i) was inserted by S.I. 1986/1320.

(3)

S.I. 2000/388.