{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-amendment-regulations-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-amendment-regulations-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2994",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note does not form part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1907) as amended (“the principal Regulations”) to provide for a substituted Part III to the principal Regulations with modification.\nThe principal Regulations have two purposes. First, they implemented Council Directive 90/384/EEC (as amended by Council Directive 93/68/EEC) on the harmonisation of the laws of the member States relating to non-automatic weighing instruments (“instruments”). Secondly, the principal Regulations contained provisions in their Part III in relation to instruments which are used for trade.\nThese Regulations modify the principal Regulations to–\n(a) allow a Class IIII instrument to be used for trade for the purposes of weighing any material the disposal of which constitutes a landfill disposal and any household, industrial or commercial waste (regulation 2);\n(b) provide consequential amendments.\nIn other respects the substituted Part III of the principal Regulations re-makes the earlier provisions.\nThese Regulations have been notified to the European Commission in draft form pursuant to Council Directive 83/189/EEC, as amended, now codified by Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2994/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:28.521166+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."
}