{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-weights-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1986/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-weights-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1986/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1685",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Weights and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-weights-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Testing equipment consisting of weighing equipment used for testing working standard weights, test weights and egg grading machine test poises shall comply with the following requirements:\n(a) the discrimination threshold of the testing equipment used shall not exceed one-fifth of the relevant amount specified in Tables 1 to 6 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations as the limit of error for the weight being tested, or, in the case of an egg grading machine test poise, 7 mg, and\n(b) the repeatability of the testing equipment shall be such that the 95 per cent. confidence interval of a single reading does not exceed one-fifth of the relevant amount specified in Tables 1 to 6 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations as the limit of error for the weight being tested, or, in the case of an egg grading machine test poise, 7 mg.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1685/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:40:41.631196+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."
}