Paragraph 11 Power to test equipment
An officer of an enforcer may test any weighing or measuring equipment—
which is, or which the officer has reasonable cause to believe may be, used for trade or in the possession of any person or on any premises for such use, or
which has been, or which the officer has reasonable cause to believe to have been, passed by an approved verifier, or by a person purporting to act as such a verifier, as fit for such use.
Expressions used in sub-paragraph (1) have the same meaning as in the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
The powers in sub-paragraph (4) are available to an officer of an enforcer acting pursuant to the duty in regulation 10(1) of the 2011 Regulations.
The officer may test any equipment which the officer has reasonable cause to believe is used in—
making up packages (as defined in regulation 2 of the 2011 Regulations), or
carrying out a check mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (3) of regulation 9 of the 2011 Regulations.
An enforcer may exercise the power in this paragraph for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been any non-compliance.