Weights and Measures Regulations, 1907, Dated AUGUST 27, 1907, Made by the Board of Trade UNDER THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1904 (4 EDW. 7. C. 28).
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1907/698 |
1907 No. 698
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
(C) Board of Trade Regulations
(i) General Regulations
THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES REGULATIONS, 1907, DATED AUGUST 27, 1907, MADE BY THE BOARD OF TRADE UNDER THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1904 (4 EDW. 7. C. 28).[These Regulations (S.R. & O. 1907, p. 1075) are printed as amended by Regulations, dated September 16, 1942 (S.R. & O. 1942 (No. 1886) I, p. 906).]
GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Weights and Measures Regulations, 1907.
2. These Regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1907.
3. In the construction of these Regulations—
"the date of these Regulations" means the 1st day of October, 1907.
"capacity" in reference to a weighing instrument means the maximum load which it is constructed to weigh.
"instrument" means weighing instrument, but includes measuring instrument where the wider meaning is not excluded by the context.
"requirements of these Regulations" includes requirements of the Weights and Measures Acts.
"correct" in reference to a weight or measure or instrument means correct within the limits of error specified in the Tables, where not repugnant to the context.
"error" in reference to an instrument includes deficiency in sensitiveness, where not repugnant to the context.
"authority" means the local authority or such other authority as has jurisdiction under the Weights and Measures Acts, 1878 to 1904, in respect of the matters dealt with in any Regulation.
4. On the appointment of an inspector by the authority, or the termination of the appointment of an existing inspector, the authority shall give notice thereof to the Board of Trade. Provided that in Ireland in the case of ex-officio inspectors a transfer from one district to another need not be notified.
5. Sets of local standards shall be provided by the authority sufficient for the requirements of the district. All standards shall be of material and form approved by the Board of Trade.
One set of the local standards shall be kept apart, and used only for the verification of working standards and for the re-verification of duplicate local standards, where such are provided.
New local standard avoirdupois weights, 56 lb. to ½ dram inclusive (except the 50, 20, 10, 5 lb. octagonal weights), shall be in all cases of spherical shape.
6. The inspector shall be provided with working standards, scale-beams, and balances for testing weights, adequate instrumental equipment, and travelling kit for inspection, of such material and form as may from time to time be approved by the Board of Trade.
The inspector's equipment shall include pipettes or small glass tubes or measures graduated into grains or minims, and grain weights, 100 grains down to 1/100 th grain, for making tests for sensitiveness and error.
Where a large amount of working standards is required, as in the testing of weighbridges, the authority shall provide a quantity of not less than one ton, and a vehicle for carrying them when necessary.
All scale-beams and balances for the use of an inspector in the inspection and verification of weights for use in trade shall bear the stamp of the Board of Trade, and shall be submitted for re-verification once at least in every five years.
7. The inspector shall be provided by the authority with such dies, punches, stencil plates, branding irons, etching and engraving implements, sand-blasting machinery, and other implements, as may be necessary for affixing the local verification stamp, the design and number of which are furnished by the Board of Trade.
For obliterating stamps, the authority shall provide punches, of suitable sizes, of a six-pointed star design, as shown in the illustration below.
8. The inspector shall be provided by the authority with an adequate office, to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade, together with cases or presses for the due security of his standards, instruments, and books.
Unless no other suitable premises are available, a stamping office, whether temporary or otherwise, shall not be on premises where intoxicating liquors are sold, or where retail trade is carried on, and it shall be selected as far as possible with a view to freedom from vibration.
9. It will be the duty of the authority to arrange that the premises of every trader in the district are visited by an inspector for the purpose of inspecting all weights, measures, and instruments in use for trade at least once a year.
Provided, nevertheless, that the authority may, with the sanction of the Board of Trade, extend such period to not more than two years, with respect to the whole or some part of their area or to certain trades.
Arrangements shall also be made for special surprise visits from time to time.
10. The authority shall cause the inspector to make annual reports as to inspection and verification in the form given in Tables A and B, or in such other form as may be from time to time approved by the Board of Trade.
Copies of such annual reports shall be sent to the Board of Trade by the authority not later than the 30th day of September in any year.
11. All weights, measures, and instruments shall be tested in a clean condition, and, if necessary, the inspector shall call upon the owner or user to clean them.
12. Subject to the provisos at the end of this Regulation the inspector, on inspection, shall obliterate the stamp (a)—
(a) on any weight, measure, or instrument which is such that it cannot be stamped or re-stamped under these Regulations, and cannot be made to conform to the requirements of these Regulations;
(a) Egg-grading machines see S.R. & O. 1942 No. 1278, p. 168 below.
(b) on a measure of length, if the deficiency or excess exceeds four times the amount allowed on verification;
(c) on a measure of capacity (other than an apothecaries measure), if the error in deficiency is more than half that allowed in excess on verification, or if the error in excess is more than that allowed on verification and, on apothecaries glass measures, if the error is greater than that allowed on verification;
(d) on a weight, if the error in deficiency is more than half that allowed in excess on verification, or if the error in excess is more than that allowed on verification;
(e) on a weight or measure if, owing to its being broken, much indented or otherwise, it does not admit of proper adjustment;
(f) on a weight or measure which, since the last stamping, has been repaired or re-adjusted;
(g) on a weighing instrument, if the error exceeds twice, or if the deficiency in sensitiveness exceeds three times the amount allowed on verification;
(h) on a weighing instrument used for one of the special trades of the first class hereinafter mentioned, if the error exceeds twice, or if the deficiency in sensitiveness exceeds three times the amount allowed on the verification of Class B instruments;
(i) on a weighing instrument used for one of the special trades of the second class hereinafter mentioned, if the error, or the deficiency in sensitiveness, exceeds twice the amount allowed on the verification of Class C instruments;
(j) on an equal armed weighing instrument which, since the last stamping, has been repaired or adjusted; and on any weighing instrument which, since the last stamping, has been so repaired or altered that it has become necessary to ascertain that the indications of the instrument remain correct throughout its range, as, for instance, when an instrument is altered in design or construction, or when new stays, levers, or springs are introduced.
Provided that where the incorrectness of a weight, measure, or instrument exceeds the limits laid down in this Regulation, but is not in the inspector's judgment such as to require the immediate obliteration of the stamp, he shall leave with the trader a notice calling on him to have the weight, measure, or instrument corrected within a stated period, not to exceed in any case 28 days, and shall obliterate the stamp if the correction has not been made within such period.
Provided, further, that where in a weighing instrument the incorrectness is due merely to a need for re-balancing the instrument, the stamp shall not be defaced.
Provided, further, that until the end of the period of two years after the date of these Regulations in the case of a weighing instrument which was stamped and in use in any of the special trades hereinafter mentioned before the date of these Regulations, the inspector shall not obliterate the stamp if the previously existing requirements are satisfied.
Provided, further, that where the Board of Trade disapprove of any pattern of weight, measure, or instrument under Section 6 of the Weights and Measures Act, 1904, the inspector shall not obliterate or deface the stamp on any such weight or measure or instrument which was stamped prior to such disapproval by reason only of such subsequent disapproval.
Provided, further, that where a duly stamped weight, measure, or instrument which has not been repaired, adjusted, or altered since stamping is found by an inspector to be correct within the limits laid down in this Regulation, he shall not obliterate or deface the stamp, but may at his discretion impress a date mark.
13. Where a weight, measure, or instrument is brought by a trader to an inspector for re-verification, he shall deal with it in the same manner as upon inspection, but need not, if he does not consider it necessary, test a glass or earthenware measure, unless the original stamp has been defaced.
Provided, nevertheless, that on such re-verification the limits of error shall be the same as on verification.
14. Before stamping any weight, measure, or instrument the inspector shall ascertain that it complies with the requirements of these Regulations.
With reference to weights, measures, or instruments already in existence at the date of these Regulations, which do not conform to the requirements of these Regulations, or of which the stamping is by these Regulations...
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