94 General Interpretation
Weights and Measures Act 1985 (1985 c 72) | Legislation

94  General Interpretation

(1)     Except where the context otherwise requires, in this Act—

[“approved verifier” has the meaning given by section 11(6A) above;]

“capacity measurement” means measurement in terms of a unit of measurement included in Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Act;

“check-weighed”, in relation to any vehicle, means weighed with its load by means of the nearest suitable and available weighing equipment, and weighed again after it has been unloaded by means of the same or other suitable weighing equipment;

“chief inspector” means a chief inspector of weights and measures appointed under section 72(1) above;

“container” . . . includes any form of packaging of goods for sale as a single item, whether by way of wholly or partly enclosing the goods or by way of attaching the goods to, or winding the goods round, some other article, and in particular includes a wrapper or confining band;

“contravention”, in relation to any requirement, includes a failure to comply with that requirement, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

“credentials”, in relation to an inspector, means authority in writing from the local weights and measures authority who appointed him for the exercise by that inspector of powers conferred

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