Interpretation

In these Regulations“discrimination” means the ability of a weighing instrument to react to small variations of load specified in regulation 10; “error of a weighing machine” means the difference, when the machine is loaded with a standard weight, between the indicated mass and the mass value assigned to that standard weight; “load receptor” means the part of a weighing instrument on which goods being weighed are placed; “nonautomatic weighing instrument” means an instrument (a) requires the intervention of an operator during the weighing process to deposit on or remove from the receptor the load to be measured and also to obtain the result, (b) permits direct observation of the weighing results; 8 National Metrology “sensitivity” in relation to a weighing instrument not equipped with digital indication means the displacement of the index produced by a small change of load specified in Regulation 10; “weight” means a body of determinate mass for use within a “verification scale interval” means the value, expressed in units of mass, used for the classification and verification of a First Schedule.