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Regulation 16 Enforcement of conditions applicable to EEC limited pattern approvalF1I1C1

United Kingdom

Where an EEC limited pattern approval is subject to one or more of the following conditions, that is to say–

(a)

a condition requiring written notice of the place of installation to be given to the competent authorities of member States in which instruments of the pattern in question are to be installed;

(b)

a condition limiting the use of instruments of the pattern in question;

(c)

a special condition with respect to the techniques used;

any person who, knowing that any such condition applies to any instrument–

(i)

uses for trade, or causes or permits any other person so to use, that instrument knowing that notice has not been given as required by the condition mentioned in paragraph (a) above or (as the case may be) in contravention of a condition mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) above; or

(ii)

disposes of the instrument to any other person in a state in which it could be used for trade without informing that person of the condition,

shall be guilty of an offence, and the instrument shall be liable to be forfeited.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked with savings (1.12.2015) by The Weights and Measures (Revocations) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/356), reg. 1(2)(b), Sch. Pt. 2 para. 3 (with Sch. Pt. 2 para. 5 (as amended on IP completion day by S.I. 2019/696, reg. 1, Sch. 17 para. 1(3)))

Modifications

C1

Reg. 16 applied (with modifications) (1.11.1995) by The Measuring Instruments (EC Requirements) (Electrical Energy Meters) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2607), regs. 1(1), 5

Commencement

I1

Reg. 16 in force at 14.3.1988, see reg. 1(1)