{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-regulations-2016/schedule-6/paragraph-4.1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1152",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/4.1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4.1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "On implementation of the procedures laid down in regulation 36, the error of indication shall not exceed the maximum permissible error of indication as shown in Table 3. In the case of digital indication the error of indication shall be corrected for the rounding error.\nThe maximum permissible errors apply to the net value and tare value for all possible loads, excluding preset tare values.\nTable 3\nMaximum permissible errors\nLoad\nMaximum permissible error\nClass I\nClass II\nClass III\nClass IIII\n0 ≤ m ≤ 50 000 e\n0 ≤ m ≤ 5 000 e\n0 ≤ m ≤ 500 e\n0 ≤ m ≤ 50 e\n± 0,5 e\n50 000 e < m ≤ 200 000 e\n5 000 e < m ≤ 20 000 e\n500 e < m ≤\n2 000 e\n50 e < m ≤ 200 e\n± 1,0 e\n200 000 e < m\n20 000 e < m ≤ 100 000 e\n2 000 e < m ≤ 10 000 e\n200 e < m ≤\n1 000 e\n± 1,5 e",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 6-9 inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 26 para. 45 (with Sch. 26 para. 5) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1152/schedule/6/paragraph/4.1",
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  "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."
}