Commentary on Sections Section 3 : Pre-test stamping
Subsection (1) of this section provides for the insertion of a new Article 13A after Article 13 (Regulations relating to weighing or measuring for trade) of the 1981 Order.
Article 13A is entitled “Pre-test stamping by certain manufacturers” and provides for manufacturers of weighing or measuring equipment, who are approved verifiers, to apply the prescribed stamp before the equipment has been tested and passed as fit for use for trade (provided they are satisfied that the equipment will not be used unless it has been passed as fit for use for trade) as follows:
Subsection (2) of this section provides for the insertion of a qualification in the definition of "stamp" in Article 2(2) (Interpretation) of the 1981 Order to the extent that, with the introduction of pre-test stamping, such a mark may not necessarily be evidence of the passing of the associated equipment as being fit for use for trade.
Subsection (3) of this section provides for a minor consequential amendment to
Article 47(1) (Penalties) of the 1981 Order.