5 Working standards and testing and stamping equipment
Weights and Measures Act 1985 (1985 c 72) | Legislation

5  Working standards and testing and stamping equipment

(1)     Subject to subsection (3) below, each local weights and measures authority shall provide for use by the inspectors appointed for the authority's area, and maintain or from time to time replace—

(a)     such standards (in this Act referred to as “working standards”) of such of the measures and weights set out in Schedule 3 to this Act,

(b)     such testing equipment, and

(c)     such stamping equipment,

as are proper and sufficient for the efficient discharge by those inspectors of their functions in the authority's area.

(2)     An authority may—

(a)     provide a particular working standard or item of equipment as required by subsection (1) above by making arrangements with another person for the standard or item to be made available by him, and

(b)     make arrangements with another person for standards or equipment provided by the authority under subsection (1)

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