{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-fees-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-fees-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1300",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Fees) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-fees-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations —\n“the 1988 principal Regulations” means the Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988;\n“the 2000 principal Regulations” means the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2000;\n“approved body”, “approved type”, “EC type-approval certificate”, “EC unit verification”, and “instrument” shall have the same meaning as in the 2000 principal Regulations;\n“officer” means a person engaged in carrying out any of the services on behalf of the Secretary of State; and\n“variable fee” means an amount calculated in accordance with Schedule 1 hereto.\n(2) The services referred to in regulations 4 and 5 are those services mentioned or referred to in Schedule 2 hereto.\n(3) In calculating a variable fee, each period of time taken by each officer involved in carrying out any service shall be counted separately, and the total for each officer aggregated, and shall be divided into complete periods of 15 minutes, with any remaining period of 7.5 minutes or more but less than 15 minutes being counted as a complete period of 15 minutes, and any remaining period of less than 7.5 minutes being disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/186, as amended by S.I. 1988/1128 and 1996/319."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/3236."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2679",
      "affecting_title": "The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Fees) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/728",
      "affecting_title": "The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1300/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:25:16.958024+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."
}