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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/calibration-of-tanks-of-vessels-eec-requirements-regulations-1975/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1975/2125",
  "legislation_title": "The Calibration of Tanks of Vessels (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/calibration-of-tanks-of-vessels-eec-requirements-regulations-1975",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations implement Council Directive No. 71/349/EEC relating to the calibration of the tanks of inland waterway vessels and coastal vessels.\nThey provide for the application for calibration to be made to the Secretary of State and for the calibration to be carried out in accordance with the Directive and for the issue of a calibration certificate (regulations 3 and 4). They also provide for the fixing of a calibration plate to the tank and for the application to that plate of a sealing mark in the form of the mark of EEC partial verification described in the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1975 (regulation 4).\nThese Regulations also provide for offences and penalties in connection with the misuse of the sealing mark (regulations 8 and 13), and include powers of inspection of tanks and entry of vessels and premises for the enforcement of the regulations (regulation 9).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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