# The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1 These Regulations further amend the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1320) (“the 1986 Regulations”) (as amended by S.I. 1994/1851 and 1996/797).
2 Regulation 2 amends regulation 22(2) of the 1986 Regulations to provide an additional exception under which an inspector may test a filling machine notwithstanding the fact that the conditions for testing otherwise laid down are not met. This exception is where a dismantling and re-assembly or transportation of a “filling machine” could not, in the inspector’s opinion, affect the accuracy or functioning of that filling machine. A new regulation 23A is inserted in respect of filling machines imported from another member State or EEA State which provides that a filling machine shall not be tested by the inspector when an inspector is presented with the “requisite documentation ” (as defined in paragraph (2)(a) of that regulation), unless he is not satisfied as regard to the information contained in the requisite documentation.
3 Various minor corrections and consequential amendments are made by regulations 2(4) and (5).
4 These Regulations have been notified to the European Commission and the other member States in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L204, 21.7.98, p. 37), as amended by Directive 98/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L217, 5.8.98, p. 18).
5 A Regulatory Impact Assessment in respect of these Regulations is available and a copy can be obtained from the National Weights and Measures Laboratory (an Executive Agency of the Department of Trade and Industry), Stanton Avenue, Teddington, TW11 0JZ. A copy has also been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/387/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/weighing-equipment-filling-and-discontinuous-totalising-automatic-weighing-machines-amendment-regulations-2000/note
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