{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-gravimetric-filling-instruments-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-gravimetric-filling-instruments-regulations-2000/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/388",
  "legislation_title": "The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-gravimetric-filling-instruments-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional exclusion",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations do not apply to a filling instrument–\n(a) which comprises a filling machine for the purposes of the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986; and\n(b) which has been first passed as fit for use for trade, for the purposes of those Regulations, within a period of 10 years from the date on which these Regulations came into force.\n(2) The exception provided in paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of a filling instrument which bears the marking “R 61”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 17.7.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1320, amended by S.I. 1994/1851, 1996/797, 2000/387."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/388/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:43.910403+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."
}