Scope of this ESSENTIAL
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This ESSENTIAL describes the UK regulations on REGULATED NAWI, based on - the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016 - the The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - BREXIT Guidance dokuments published by the UK government (see: Link/Reference to other reference documents)
In UK, NAWI are classified into 2 sections (for a better understanding the words REGULATED and NON-REGULATED are typed in capitals in this CRF) 1.) REGULATED weighing instruments, see Part 2 of SI 2016 No.1152(corresponding to 2014/31/EU, Article 1, (a) - (f)) These Regulations apply to an instrument (referred to in these Regulations as a “REGULATED non-automatic weighing instrument”) for use for any of the following purposes: (a) the determination of mass for commercial transactions; (b) the determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration, indemnity or similar type of payment; (c) the determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations or for an expert opinion given in court proceedings; (d) the determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment; (e) the determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determination of mass in analyses carried out in medical and pharmaceutical laboratories; (f) the determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the making up of prepackages.
2.) NON-REGULATED weighing instruments, see Part 4 of SI 2016 No.1152 (corresponding to 2014/31/EU, Article 1, (g))'
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