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The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000
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- 2000 No. 388
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Filling Instruments imported from [F1an EEA State] E+W+S
8.—(1) In relation to a filling instrument imported into Great Britain from [F2an EEA State], subject to paragraph (4), an inspector shall not carry out any test relating to initial verification testing if, together with the filling instrument being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.
(2) In this regulation and regulation 9(2)–
(a)“requisite documentation” means–
(i)the test report, in the format set out in Part 2 of OIML R 61, of an approved body that the filling instrument which is the subject of that report has been tested on the same basis as the procedure specified in clause 5.3 (initial verification) of Part 1 of OIML R 61, and stating which tests have been applied to it; and
(ii)the test results relating to those tests; and
(b)“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement F3...; and in this paragraph “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993.
[F4(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of filling instruments or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing filling instruments in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.]
(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector carrying out initial verification testing 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 filling instrument being imported; or
(c)subject to regulation 7(4), that the filling instrument has not been dismantled after the tests to which the test report relates were carried out.
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F1Words in reg. 8 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 10(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 10(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in reg. 8(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 10(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Reg. 8(3) substituted (28.2.2003) by The Weights and Measures (Standards Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/214), reg. 1, Sch. para. 8
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