{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1988-revoked/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1988-revoked/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/186",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1988-revoked",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Introductory",
  "text": "(1) This Part of these Regulations contains provisions with respect to the grant, extension and revocation of EEC pattern approval in the United Kingdom and the carrying out of EEC initial verification in the United Kingdom and generally with respect to the application in the United Kingdom of the EEC signs and marks.\n(2) The following Table indicates, in relation to each Directive mentioned in Regulation 3 above, whether it provides for both pattern approval and initial verification, or just one of them, in relation to instruments of a category to which it applies:\nTABLE\nDirective\nWhether it provides for pattern approval or initial verification, or both\nPattern Approval\nInitial Verification\nThe Directive on medium accuracy bar weights and cylindrical weights\nNo\nYes\nThe Directive on meters for liquids other than water\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on the measuring of the standard mass per storage volume of grain\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on ancillary equipment for meters for liquids other than water\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on non-automatic weighing machines\nYes, except for machines exempted under section 13 of the Annex to the Directive\nYes\nThe Directive on material measures of length\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on above-medium accuracy weights\nNo\nYes\nThe Directive on cold-water meters\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on continuous totalising weighing machines\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on measuring systems for liquids other than water\nYes, for those systems specified in 3.1.1 of the Annex to the Directive\nYes\nThe Directive on automatic checkweighing and weight grading machines\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on hot-water meters\nYes\nYes\nThe Directive on tyre pressure gauges for motor vehicles\nYes\nYes",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 14.3.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/186/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:17.437867+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."
}