9B.—(1) This Article applies where—
(a)any equipment which has been tested by an official EEA tester is atany time submitted to an inspector under Article 9(3);
(b)the test report of the official EEA tester is submitted to the inspector at that time; and
(c)that report states which tests have been applied to the equipment and sets out the results of those tests.
(2) Article 9 shall have effects as if—
(a)sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (3) required the inspector not to test the equipment in the manner mentioned in that sub-paragraph; and
(b)sub-paragraph (b) and (c) of that paragraph required him to rely,for the purposes of those sub-paragraphs, on the test report of the official EEA tester.
(3) In this Article “official EEA tester”, in relation to the testing of equipment of any description, means a person who, at the time when the tests were applied—
(a)had responsibility in an EEA State for the metrological control of equipment of that description; or
(b)was accredited in an EEA State as a person operating a laboratory, in conformity with the criteria set out in the applicable European Standard, for the purpose of testing equipment of that description.
(4) In paragraph (3) “EEA State” means a Contracting Party to 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.]