{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-automatic-gravimetric-filling-instruments-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-automatic-gravimetric-filling-instruments-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/384",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-automatic-gravimetric-filling-instruments-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Automatic gravimetric filling instruments to be set to zero",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not use an automatic gravimetric filling instrument for trade unless it is properly balanced or set to zero immediately prior to use.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of an instrument if it is designed so as not to balance when unloaded.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 15.10.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/384/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:39:28.571979+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."
}