{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-rail-weighbridges-regulations-2003/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-rail-weighbridges-regulations-2003/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2454",
  "legislation_title": "The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Rail-weighbridges) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-automatic-rail-weighbridges-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "General Duties for use for trade",
  "text": "No person shall use for trade an automatic rail-weighbridge unless—\n(a) it has been erected and installed in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 2;\n(b) the requirements of Schedule 3 in respect of its use and manner of use are complied with; and\n(c) when it is used as a non-automatic weighing instrument that serves to determine the mass of a load by using the action of gravity—\n(i) it complies with the requirements of either the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000 or the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2000 and\n(ii) it is equipped with an enabling device for non-automatic operation that prevents both automatic operation and weighing-in-motion.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/932."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/3236."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2454/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:57:57.547768+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."
}