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Paragraph 2

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

The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986f1 shall be amended as follows:—

(i)

for paragraph (3) of regulation 23A there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(3)

A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of filling machines or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing filling machines in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000f2.”; and

(ii)

for paragraph (3) of regulation 32A there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“(3)

A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of discontinuous totalisers or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing discontinuous totalisers in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1986/1320; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/797 and S.I. 2000/387.

f2

BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000 is the international standard “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories” (ISBN 0 580 34929 2).