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CHECKWEIGHING IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES ACT 1919 - SECT 2

Manner in which weights may be checked or tested.

2.(1) The manner in which the workmen engaged in any industry to which
this Act applies may exercise their powers of checking the weights or testing
the estimated weights shall, as respects the industries mentioned in the First
Schedule to this Act, be such as is provided by the regulations applicable to
those industries respectively set forth in that Schedule, and as respects any
industry to which the provisions of this Act may be extended by regulations of
the Secretary of State, be such as may be provided by those regulations:

Provided that the regulations set forth in the First Schedule to this Act may
be varied by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(2) Where under the regulations contained in the First Schedule to this Act,
or made by the Secretary of State, the workmen are authorised to appoint a
checkweigher, the checkweigher shall be entitled to station himself at any
place appointed for the weighing of material in order that he may on behalf of
the workmen by whom he is appointed take a correct account of the weight of
the material, and the employer shall afford to him all proper facilities for
enabling him to fulfil his duties, including facilities for examining and
testing all weighing machines and checking the tareing of wagons in which the
material is weighed.

(3) Where under the regulations contained in the First Schedule to this Act,
or made by the Secretary of State, the workmen are entitled to appoint a
checkweigher or other representative, the appointment shall be made and
revoked and evidence of the appointment furnished to the employer in such
manner as the Secretary of State may prescribe, and the provisions of the Coal
Mines Regulation Acts, 1887 to 1908, relating to the powers, duties, removal,
and remuneration of checkweighers, and the relations between employers and
checkweighers, as set forth and adapted in the Second Schedule to this Act,
shall apply to the checkweighers and other representatives so appointed.

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