{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1995/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1995/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/735",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Peristaltic pump dispensers",
  "text": "The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1990 are hereby amended,—\n(a) in regulation 2(1), by the insertion after the definition of “multifiller” of the following definition—\n““peristaltic pump dispenser” means a device, operating on the peristaltic principle, designed to deliver a known quantity of water for the testing of dispensing measures for pharmaceutical purposes;”;\n(b) in Part III, by the insertion after regulation 18 of the following regulation—\n“Peristaltic pump dispensers\n18A (1) A peristaltic pump dispenser shall have been tested within 6 months before use at the minimum, at the maximum and at five intermediate delivered volumes suitable for the purpose for which it is to be used.\n(2) A peristaltic pump dispenser shall be tested by weighing the water delivered by a suitable weighing machine and determining the delivered volume from the weight so ascertained.\n(3) The error on a peristaltic pump dispenser shall not exceed the limits of error shown in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.”; and\n(c) in Schedule 2, by the insertion at the end of the following table—\n“\nPeristaltic pump dispensers\nDelivered volume\nLimit of error\nmillilitres\nmillilitres\n1\n0.04\n2\n0.04\n3\n0.05\n4\n0.05\n5\n0.06\n6\n0.07\n7\n0.07\n8\n0.08\n9\n0.08\n10\n0.08\n15\n0.10\n20\n0.12\n25\n0.12\n30\n0.13\n35\n0.13\n40\n0.14\n45\n0.14\n50\n0.15\n60\n0.16\n70\n0.17\n75\n0.17\n80\n0.18\n90\n0.20\n100\n0.20\n125\n0.25\n150\n0.30\n175\n0.35\n200\n0.40\n225\n0.40\n250\n0.40\n300\n0.42\n350\n0.42\n400\n0.45\n450\n0.45\n500\n0.50\n1000\n1.00\n”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 10.4.1995, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/2626."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/735/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:11.400557+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}