{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-catchweighing-instruments-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-catchweighing-instruments-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Catchweighing Instruments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-catchweighing-instruments-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Requirements to be satisfied for passing as fit for use for trade",
  "text": "Every automatic catchweighing instrument shall, before it is passed as fit for use for trade,—\n(a) comply with a pattern in respect of which a certificate of approval remains in force at the time when such instrument is so passed;\n(b) have affixed to it the applicable descriptive markings relating to that automatic catchweighing instrument and have provision for a place for the application of the specified verification marks, in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 4; and\n(c) subject to regulation 9, have successfully undergone initial verification testing and, as part of that testing, an accuracy class has been confirmed in respect of it; for the purposes of these Regulations, initial verification testing means testing of an automatic catchweighing instrument in accordance with the procedure specified in clause 5.3 (initial verification) of Part 1 of OIML R51 or on an equivalent basis.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 8.5.2006, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/154/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:47:20.710149+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."
}