The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2000

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to the regulation of specifications, construction, placing on the market and use of articles, instruments, containers or other equipment intended for weighing, measuring or testing or for purposes ancillary thereto, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, and (as respects Part III hereof) of the powers conferred on him by sections 15(1), 86(1) and 94(1) of the Weights and Measures Act 19853 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—