These Regulations implement, in Northern Ireland, International Recommendation OIML R 61 of the Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale relating to automatic gravimetric filling instruments (Edition 1996 (E)), to the extent that the Recommendation applies to such instruments following the grant or renewal of a certificate of approval of a pattern by the Department under Article 10 of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (“the 1981 Order”).
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment1, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13(1) of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 19812 and now vested in it3 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: