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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1152",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "A conformity assessment body, its top level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessment tasks must not be the designer, manufacturer, supplier, installer, purchaser, owner, user or maintainer of the regulated non-automatic weighing instruments that they assess, nor the representative of any of those parties. This provision shall not preclude the use of assessed regulated non-automatic weighing instruments that are necessary for the operations of the conformity assessment body or the use of such regulated non-automatic weighing instruments for personal purposes.",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2026/40",
      "affecting_title": "The Treatment of Conformity Assessment Bodies (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of India) Regulations 2026"
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      "affecting_title": "The Treatment of Conformity Assessment Bodies (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of India) Regulations 2026"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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