Paragraph 5

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch.3, para 17(c) amended by Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) 1992 reg.2(q)(i)
Sch.3, para 17(d) revoked by Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) 1992 reg.2(q)(ii)
Sch.3, para 17A added by Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) 1992 reg.2(q)(u)
sch. 3 amended by Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) 1988

In the case of a machine of an approved pattern which, in the published particulars thereof, is described as having a weighing mode in which, with the load receptor empty—

(a)

the machine cannot be balanced, or

(b)

an indicating, printing or tare device cannot be set to zero,

then nothing in the provisions of Parts II and III of this Schedule shall require such balancing or setting, or prevent the machine from being fully tested.