{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-23B",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1682",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/23B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23B",
  "heading": "Measures of Length imported from a member State or an EEA State",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4) below, in relation to measures of length imported into Great Britain from a member State or from an EEA State, an inspector shall not carry out any test in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of these Regulations if, together with the measures of length being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.\n(2) In this regulation and in regulation 25(2) below—\n(a) “requisite documentation” means—\n(i) the test report of an approved body stating that the measures of length which are the subject of that report have been tested in accordance with the tests mentioned in this Part of these Regulations and stating which tests have been applied to those measures of length; and\n(ii) the test results relating to those tests; and\n(b) “EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement ...; and in this paragraph “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993.\n(3) A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of measures of length or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing measures of length in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector testing in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Part of these Regulations where he is not satisfied—\n(a) as to the authenticity of the test report or the test results presented to him; or\n(b) that those results in fact relate to the measures of length being imported.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 23A, 23B inserted (25.11.1996) by The Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2636), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23B(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23B(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 23B(3) substituted (28.2.2003) by The Weights and Measures (Standards Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/214), reg. 1, Sch. para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23B heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Weighing and Measuring Equipment and Meters (Amendment of Secondary Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1387), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1682/regulation/23B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:40:43.844688+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."
}