Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investments

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1981

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment has made a Statutory Rule entitled:

The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No. 472).

The Regulations amend the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and apply to equipment used for trade to measure liquid fuel (other than liquefied petroleum gas) in a quantity of 100 litres or less (but do not apply to equipment for automatic measuring of constant nominal quantities).

This technical SR stems from a review of the equivalent GB Regulations, the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations 19952. The intention was to ensure that they were still relevant and up to date.

The Regulations make the following changes to the 1998 Regulations:

–	require that zero readings are not affected by hose dilation;
–	require that instruments bear an indication of the product that they deliver;
–	remove the requirement for the 20 litre test at minimum flow rate;
–	require that a test report be attached if factory testing is carried out;
–	remove an outdated provision that related to conversion to metric

These Regulations, which come into operation on 5 December 2005, are made under Articles 9(1) and 13(1) of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

Copies of the Regulations may be purchased from the Stationery Office Bookshop, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD.

2 SR 1995/1014