European Communities (Measuring Instruments and Metrological Control) Regulations 2018.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Measuring Instruments and Metrological Control) Regulations 2018.
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 28 February 2018.
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations—
(2) A word or expression which is used in these Regulations and is also used in the Metrology Directive has, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Metrology Directive.
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paragraphs: These Regulations apply to—
(a) the placing on the market and putting into service of instruments, and
(b) the harmonisation of methods of measurement and metrological control and, where appropriate, the means required for application of such methods.
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paragraphs: (1) Subject to paragraph (2), nothing in the Metrology Act 1996 (No. 27 of 1996) or any other enactment or rule of law shall prevent, prohibit or restrict the placing on the market or entry into service of an instrument or of a product described in Regulation 3 where that instrument or product bears EC marks or signs in accordance with—
(a) these Regulations or the law of another Member State giving effect to the Metrology Directive, and
(b) the law of the State giving effect to a separate Directive relating to the instrument or product in question or the law of another Member State giving effect to a separate Directive relating to the instrument or product in question.
(2) Where an instrument bears an EC initial verification mark, paragraph (1) shall not apply in respect of that instrument from the end of the year following the year in which that mark was affixed to the instrument or, where the law of the State giving effect to a separate Directive provides for a longer period, from the end of that period.
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paragraphs: (1) EC pattern approval, in relation to an instrument, means the admission to EC initial verification of that instrument and, where EC initial verification is not required, the authorisation to place the instrument on the market or to put the instrument into service.
(2) Where the law of the State giving effect to the separate Directive applicable to a category of instruments exempts that category from EC pattern approval, the instruments in that category shall be admitted directly to EC initial verification.
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paragraphs: (1) The Director shall grant EC pattern approval in accordance with this Part, Part 4, Schedule 1 and the law of the State giving effect to the relevant separate Directive.
(2) Where the inspection equipment of the Legal Metrology Service so permits, the Director shall grant EC pattern approval to an instrument which satisfies the requirements specified in these Regulations and the law of the State giving effect to the relevant separate Directive.
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paragraphs: (1) An application for EC pattern approval shall be made by the manufacturer of an instrument or, where the manufacturer is not established in the Union, the representative of the manufacturer established within the Union.
(2) An application for EC pattern approval shall not be made in the State in respect of an instrument where an application in respect of that instrument has previously been made in another Member State.