{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1995/regulation-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1995/regulation-33.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1907",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Load receptors",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not use any instrument for trade unless it is erected and used in such a manner that, during a weighing operation, the load being weighed is stationary relative to the load receptor and supported only by the load receptor.\n(2) A person shall not use for trade an instrument for the purpose of sales by retail—\n(a) unless—\n(i) the load receptor is not less than 10 mm above any adjacent surface; or\n(ii) where the load receptor is less than 10 mm above any adjacent surface, the boundary of the top surface of all adjacent surfaces is durably marked in a distinctive and contrasting manner with a band at least 15 mm in width; or\n(b) if the load receptor is below the level of any adjacent surface.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1907/regulation/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:20.753992+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."
}