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  "legislation_title": "The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1988",
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  "text": "Non-automatic weighing machines are divided into four classes of accuracy according to specifications set out in Parts II to V of this Schedule. The division depends on their characteristics as well as the provisions relating to maximum capacity, the lower limit of the minimum load, the number of scale intervals and the scale interval itself.",
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