The Merchant Shipping (Weighing of Goods Vehicles and other Cargo) (Amendment) Regulations 1989
These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Weighing of Goods Vehicles and other Cargo) Regulations 1988. They principally:clarify what certain certificates of weight required by those Regulations are, and who may issue them (regulation 2(a), new paragraph (3) to regulation 2 of those Regulations, and 2(b), new paragraphs (7) and (8) to regulation 4 of those Regulations);provide for the calculation of the weight of a trailer weighed with one vehicle,but loaded when drawn by another (regulation 2(c), new paragraph (6) in regulation 4);provide powers of enforcement by inspectors of weights and measures of the provisions dealing with weighing machines, and penalties in connection therewith (regulation 2(d), (e) and (f));correct a reference to Northern Ireland legislation (regulation 2(g));add Burwick and Gills Bay as ports at which those 1988 Regulations apply (regulation 2(i)).