# The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016, Regulation 3: Application of these Regulations


(1) Subject to regulation 4 (revocations and transitional and consequential provisions), these Regulations apply to non-automatic weighing instruments.
(2) These Regulations, except Part 4, apply to an instrument (referred to in these Regulations as a “regulated non-automatic weighing instrument”) for use for any of the following purposes—
(a) the determination of mass for commercial transactions;
(b) the determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration, indemnity or similar type of payment;
(c) the determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations or for an expert opinion given in court proceedings;
(d) the determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment;
(e) the determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determination of mass in analyses carried out in medical and pharmaceutical laboratories; and
(f) the determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the making up of prepackages.
(3) Part 4 applies to a non-automatic weighing instrument that is not a regulated instrument.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1152/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-regulations-2016/regulation-3
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