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Regulation 19 Passing as fit for use for tradeI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

No measuring equipment shall be passed as fit for use for trade—

(a)

unless it complies with all the appropriate requirements of these Regulations;

(b)

unless on testing it measures and delivers the test liquid with which it is tested to within the prescribed limits of error when it is operated at any reasonable speed, the speed of operation in respect of any individual delivery being as uniform as practicable; and

(c)

if, notwithstanding that each error is within the prescribed limits of error set out in Table 1 or Table 2 as appropriate, having regard to the dynamic viscosity of the test liquid employed, in the Schedule to these Regulations, F1every delivery made in testing the measuring equipment as provided for in paragraph (2)(c) of regulation 10A results in an error in excess or every such delivery results in an error in deficiency or in the case of testing the measuring equipment as provided for in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) of regulation 10A the inspector is not satisfied that the calibration of the measuring equipment has been set as close to zero as is practicable.

(2)

In the case of measuring equipment imported F2... an EEA State, it shall not be passed as fit for use for trade unless—

(a)

where the requisite documentation is presented in accordance with regulation 18 above, the test report recites and the test data confirm to the satisfaction of the inspector that on testing in the relevant State it fell within the prescribed limits of error; and

(b)

it complies with all the relevant requirements of these Regulations.

(3)

No measuring equipment fitted with a price to pay indicating device in digital form shall be passed as fit for use for trade if it is capable of indicating during a measuring operation a part of a penny in the amount of the price to be paid by the buyer.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 19(1)(c) substituted (12.10.1998) by The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2218), regs. 1, 3(8)

F2

Words in reg. 19(2) omitted (3.11.2003) by virtue of The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2110), regs. 1(1), 10

Commencement

I1

Reg. 19 in force at 4.5.1995, see reg. 1(1)