{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-beltweighers-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-beltweighers-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/386",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (Beltweighers) (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-beltweighers-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1981 Order” means the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\n“the 2006 Regulations” means the Measuring Instruments (Beltweighers) Regulations 2006;\n“accuracy class” means the classification of a beltweigher as set out in paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the 2006 Regulations;\n“automatic weighing instrument” means an instrument that determines the mass of a product without the intervention of an operator and follows a predetermined programme of automatic processes characteristic of the instrument intended to determine the mass of a body by using the action of gravity on that body;\n“beltweigher” means an automatic weighing instrument that continuously determines the mass of a bulk product on a conveyor belt without systematic subdivision of the product and without interrupting the movement of the conveyor belt;\n“essential requirements” means the requirements set out in Schedule 1 to the 2006 Regulations;\n“instrument” has the same meaning as beltweigher;\n“maximum capacity” means the maximum instantaneous net load that the weighing unit is intended to weigh on the portion of the conveyor belt representing the weigh length;\n“place on the market” means making available for the first time in a member State an instrument intended for an end user, whether for reward or free of charge;\n“put into use” means the first use of an instrument intended for the end user for the purposes for which it was intended; and\n“weighing unit” means the part of a beltweigher providing information on the mass of the load to be measured.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 15.10.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/1259"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/386/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:39:26.994702+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."
}