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Paragraph 3

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

In regulation 23B of the Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986f1, for paragraph (3) 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 measures of length or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing measures of length 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.”.

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Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1986/1682; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1996/2636.

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).