{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-catchweighing-instruments-regulations-2003/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-catchweighing-instruments-regulations-2003/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2761",
  "legislation_title": "The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Catchweighing Instruments) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-catchweighing-instruments-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Supplementary requirements",
  "text": "(1) Every automatic catchweighing instrument submitted for testing shall be completely assembled and in a clean condition.\n(2) For the purposes of the performance by an inspector of his functions under the Act or these Regulations relating to inspection, testing, passing as fit for use for trade and stamping of any automatic catchweighing instrument, a person submitting such an instrument to an inspector or who an inspector has reasonable cause to believe has control of such an instrument for use for trade shall, if requested, provide for the inspector’s use such material as the inspector may reasonably require, and a control instrument: any material or control instrument so provided shall be returned to the person in question.\n(3) An automatic catchweighing instrument which has been dismantled and transported before use shall not be tested, passed as fit for use for trade and stamped unless it has been completely erected ready for use and, subject to paragraph (4), installed in the position in which it is to be used.\n(4) An automatic catchweighing instrument that has not been dismantled, or one where an inspector is satisfied that any dismantling and re-assembly or transportation to its intended place of use could not, in his opinion, affect the accuracy or functioning of the automatic catchweighing instrument, may be tested, with a view to passing that instrument as fit for use for trade, at a place other than the intended place of use, for the purposes of initial verification testing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2761/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:46:09.778480+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."
}