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  "long_title": "These Regulations provide that an officer of a local weights and measures authority shall not in the cases specified in the Regulations exercise the powers conferred by section 162 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 relating to the production, copying, seizure and detention of books and documents and to the breaking open of containers unless he has the authority of the Director General of Fair Trading.",
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