{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-safety-and-metrology-etc-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-26/paragraph-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-safety-and-metrology-etc-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-26/paragraph-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/696",
  "legislation_title": "The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/product-safety-and-metrology-etc-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/26/paragraph/30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 44",
  "text": "For regulation 44 (general principles relating to the M marking) substitute—\n“Prohibition on improper use of UK marking and the M marking\n44 (1) An economic operator must not affix the UK marking or the M marking to a regulated non-automatic weighing instrument unless—\n(a) that economic operator is the manufacturer of the non-automatic weighing instrument; and\n(b) the conformity of the non-automatic weighing instrument with the essential requirements has been demonstrated by a conformity assessment procedure.\n(2) An economic operator must not affix a marking to a regulated non-automatic weighing instrument which is not the UK marking or the M marking but which purports to attest that the non-automatic weighing instrument satisfies the essential requirements.\n(3) An economic operator must not affix to a regulated non-automatic weighing instrument any other marking if the visibility, legibility and meaning of the UK marking or the M marking would be impaired as a result.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 30 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/696/schedule/26/paragraph/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:43:04.909537+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."
}