{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/202",
  "legislation_title": "Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (Use for Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-use-for-trade-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Instruments to be balanced or to be set to zero before use",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not use an instrument for trade unless it is properly balanced or set to zero immediately prior to use.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of an instrument of an approved type if, in the EC type-approval certificate, it is described as not being so constructed as to balance when unloaded.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in operation at 15.6.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/202/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:32.092635+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."
}