Weights and
Measures (Egg-Grading Machines) (Jersey) Order 1968
Official
Consolidated Version
This is an official
version of consolidated legislation compiled and issued under the authority of
the Legislation (Jersey) Law 2021.
Showing the law
from 1 January 2019 to Current
Weights and
Measures (Egg-Grading Machines) (Jersey) Order 1968[1]
Interpretation
1
(1) In
this Order, unless the context otherwise requires –
“egg-grading
machines” has the meaning assigned thereto by Article 2;
“Law” means
the Weights and
Measures (Jersey) Law 1967;
“prescribed stamp”
means the stamp specified in the Weights and Measures
(Prescribed Stamp) (Jersey) Order 1975;
“type A machines”
and “type B machines” have the meanings assigned thereto by Article 2;
“weighing unit”
means any single weighing unit which, although forming part of the whole
egg-grading machine, is complete in itself.
(2) References
in this Order to any enactment shall be construed as references to that
enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment or to any other enactment
repealing and re-enacting that enactment with or without further amendment.
Application
2
The provisions of this Order
shall apply to equipment for use for the grading by reference to their weight
of hens’ eggs in shell which are intended for human consumption (other
than equipment designed to determine the actual weight of such eggs)
being –
(a) machines
(hereinafter referred to as “type A machines”) in
which –
(i) each
weighing unit is designed to grade eggs into one grade only, and
(ii) at
least one weighing unit is designed to grade eggs into one of the grades
specified in Schedule 1;
(b) machines
(hereinafter referred to as “type B machines”) in
which –
(i) each
weighing unit is designed to grade eggs into more than one grade, and
(ii) at
least one such grade is a grade specified as aforesaid,
and such machines
(hereinafter referred to as “egg-grading machines”) are hereby
prescribed for the purposes of Article 12(1) of the Law.
Testing and passing as fit
for use for trade
3
No egg-grading machine
shall be tested unless –
(a) it
is complete with all parts and attachments;
(b) in
the case of a power-operated machine, it is completely erected, ready for use
and installed at the place where it is to be used for trade;
(c) it
is made in accordance with an approved pattern; and
(d) each
tray or other receptacle in the machine into which eggs are deposited on being
graded by a weighing unit is clearly and legibly marked to indicate the weight
range to which that tray or receptacle relates.
4
Before testing an
egg-grading machine, any counting or marking apparatus comprised in or forming part
of the machine may, if the inspector thinks fit, be put out of action.
5
(1) Every
egg-grading machine shall be tested in the appropriate manner specified in Schedule 2.
(2) No
egg-grading machine shall be passed as fit for use for trade unless it
satisfies the appropriate test specified in the said Schedule.
Stamping
6
No egg-grading machine
shall be stamped unless it incorporates therein a plug or stud of soft metal designed
for the reception of the prescribed stamp, such plug or stud being made as
nearly as possible irremovable by under-cutting or in some other suitable
manner.
7
No egg-grading machine
shall be stamped if it bears any statement or mark (other than a prescribed
stamp) which, in the opinion of the inspector –
(a) purports
to be, or is likely to be misunderstood as, or mistaken for, an indication of
approval or guarantee of its performance or accuracy; or
(b) is
likely to be misunderstood as, or mistaken for, a prescribed stamp:
Provided that a machine
may be stamped notwithstanding that it bears –
(i) the
number of the notice of examination issued by the Board of Trade which denotes
that it is of an approved pattern;
(ii) a
statement or mark which denotes the date of any modification to the approved
pattern to which the machine conforms.
Obliteration of stamps
8
(1) Subject
to the provisions of paragraph (2), an inspector shall obliterate the
stamp on any egg-grading machine –
(a) the
testing of which is prohibited by Article 3;
(b) the
stamping of which is prohibited by Article 7; or
(c) which
fails to satisfy the appropriate test specified in Schedule 2.
(2) In
any case where the stamp on a machine falls to be obliterated under the
provisions of paragraph (1)(a) or (b), an inspector may serve on the person
for the time being in possession of that machine for use for trade, a notice
specifying the grounds on which the testing or stamping, as the case may be, of
that machine is prohibited as aforesaid, and requiring the person within a
specified period, not exceeding 28 days, to take such steps as may be necessary
to remove those grounds, and the inspector shall not obliterate the stamp on
those grounds during the said period.
9
Stamps shall be obliterated
by an inspector, in accordance with the requirements of this Order, by means of
punches or pincers of suitable sizes of a 6-pointed star design as shown in Article 7
of the Weights and Measures
(General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 1968.
Citation
10
This Order may be cited
as the Weights and Measures (Egg-Grading Machines) (Jersey) Order 1968.
SCHEDULE 1
(Article 2)
GRADES OF EGGS[2]
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Column 1
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Column 2
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GRADE
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WEIGHT RANGE OF GRADE
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Very large
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73 grams or more
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Large
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63 grams or more but less than
73 grams
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Medium
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53 grams or more but less than
63 grams
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Small
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Less than 53 grams
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SCHEDULE 2
(Articles 5 and 8)
TESTS TO BE APPLIED TO EGG-GRADING MACHINES
PART 1
INTERPRETATION[3]
1. In
this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires –
“capacity”
means –
(a) in
relation to a type A machine, the number of those weighing units in the machine
whose function is to grade eggs into one of the scheduled grades; and, in
determining that number in the case of a machine in which several weighing
units grading eggs into the same scheduled grade are served by the same feed track,
2 or more such units are to be counted as a single weighing unit;
(b) in
relation to a type B machine, the product of multiplying the number of those
weighing units whose function is to grade eggs into one or more of the
scheduled grades by the number of different scheduled grades into which the
machine is designed to grade eggs;
“scheduled grades”
means the grades specified in Schedule 2;
“test poise”
means a counterpoise for use in the testing of egg-grading machines, being a
counterpoise approved by the Minister for such use as respects its form and the
material of its construction.
2. For
the purpose of any test referred to in this Schedule, an egg-grading machine
shall be treated as grading any test poise correctly if, and only if, it grades
that poise into the appropriate grade, that is to say, the grade specified in
column 1 of Schedule 1 appropriate to the weight range specified in column
2 within which the weight of that poise falls.
PART 2
TESTS FOR EGG-GRADING MACHINES[4]
1. Every
egg-grading machine shall be tested in the following manner.
FIRST TEST
2. For
the purposes of this test (in this Schedule referred to as the “first
test”), the inspector shall select a set of test poises consisting of the
number of pairs of test poises equivalent to the number of different scheduled
grades into which the machine is designed to grade eggs, each pair of poises
being selected in relation to a different scheduled grade and so that one of
the poises in the pair weighs half a gram more and the other half a gram less
than the minimum of the weight range (specified in column 2 of Schedule 1)
appropriate to that grade.
3. In
the case of a type A machine, the set of test poises shall be fed
indiscriminately into the machine in the manner in which eggs would be fed into
it in the course of its normal operation, each poise being fed into the machine
along the feed track, or (in the case of a multiple track machine) along each
feed track, the number of times specified in column 2 of Part 3 of this Schedule
in relation to a machine of that capacity.
4. In
the case of a type B machine, each poise in the set of test poises shall be fed
indiscriminately into each weighing unit in the machine the number of times
referred to in paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedule, each poise being fed
into the unit in the following manner, that is to say, either –
(a) by
placing it on the feed track serving that weighing unit; or
(b) by
placing it by hand directly into that weighing unit.
5. If
the machine fails to grade all the test poises correctly and –
(a) in
the case of a machine bearing a stamp which has not been obliterated or
defaced, the aggregate number of incorrect gradings does not exceed that
specified in column 3(i) of Part 3 of this Schedule in relation to a
machine of that capacity; or
(b) in
the case of any other machine, the aggregate number of incorrect gradings does
not exceed that specified in column 3(ii) of Part 3 of this Schedule in
relation to a machine of that capacity,
the machine shall be submitted to the second test specified below.
SECOND TEST
6. For
the purposes of this second test, the inspector shall select a further set of
test poises consisting of each pair of test poises used in the first test
which, or one of which, was incorrectly graded in that test.
7. In
the case of a type A machine, each pair of test poises so selected shall be fed
into the machine along the feed track, or (in the case of a multiple track
machine) along each feed track serving each weighing unit (being a unit grading
eggs into a scheduled grade) by which that pair of poises, or one of that pair,
was incorrectly graded in the first test. Each poise of the pair shall be fed
into the machine along the relevant feed track such number of times as
(together with the number of times that poise was fed into the machine along
that feed track in the course of the first test) equals 25.
8. In
the case of a type B machine, each pair of test poises so selected shall be fed
only into each weighing unit (being a unit grading eggs into a scheduled grade)
by which that pair of poises, or one of that pair, was incorrectly graded in
the first test. Each poise of the pair shall be fed into the relevant weighing
unit such number of times as (together with the number of times that poise was
fed into that weighing unit in the course of the first test) equals 25, and in
the following manner, that is to say, either –
(a) by
placing it on the feed track serving that weighing unit; or
(b) by
placing it by hand directly into that weighing unit.
9. The
machine satisfies the appropriate test for the purposes of Article 5(2)
if, but only if –
(a) when
tested pursuant to the first test, it correctly grades all the test poises;
(b) when
tested pursuant to the first and second tests, the number (under both such
tests) of incorrect gradings of the test poises in each pair by each weighing unit –
(i) in the case of a
machine bearing a stamp which has not been obliterated or defaced, does not
exceed 13,
(ii) in
the case of any other machine, does not exceed 11.
PART 3[5]
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Column 1
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Column 2
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Column 3
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Capacity of machine
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Number of times each test
poise must be used in the first test
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Maximum number of incorrect
gradings in the first test for determining whether the machine is to be
submitted to the second test
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(i)
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(ii)
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Machine bearing a stamp
which has not been obliterated or defaced
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Unstamped machine
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2...........................
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12
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13
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11
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3...........................
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8
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13
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11
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4...........................
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6
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13
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11
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5...........................
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5
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13
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11
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6...........................
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4
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13
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11
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7...........................
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4
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15
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12
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8...........................
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3
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13
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11
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9...........................
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3
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15
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12
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10.........................
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3
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17
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13
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11.........................
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3
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18
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14
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12.........................
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2
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13
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11
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13.........................
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2
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14
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11
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14.........................
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2
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15
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12
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15.........................
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2
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17
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13
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16.........................
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2
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18
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14
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17.........................
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2
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19
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14
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18.........................
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2
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20
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15
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19.........................
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2
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21
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16
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20.........................
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2
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22
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17
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21.........................
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2
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24
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17
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22.........................
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2
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25
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18
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23.........................
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2
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26
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19
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24,
25 or 26..........
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1
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13
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11
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27
or 28..............
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1
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15
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12
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29,
30 or 31..........
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1
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17
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13
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32,
33 or 34..........
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1
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18
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14
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35
or 36................
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1
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20
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15
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37,
38 or 39..........
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1
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21
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16
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40,
41 or 42..........
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1
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23
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17
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43,
44 or 45..........
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1
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25
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18
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46
or 47................
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1
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26
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19
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48,
49 or 50..........
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1
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28
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20
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51,
52 or 53..........
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1
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30
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23
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54
or 55................
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1
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31
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24
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56
or 57................
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1
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32
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25
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58
or 59................
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1
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34
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26
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60,
61 or 62..........
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1
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35
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27
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63
or 64................
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1
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37
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29
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65
or 66................
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1
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38
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30
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67
or 68................
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1
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39
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31
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69,
70 or 71..........
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1
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41
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33
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72
or 73................
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1
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42
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34
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74,
75 or 76..........
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1
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44
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35
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77
or 78................
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1
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45
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37
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79
or 80................
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1
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47
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38
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81
or 82................
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1
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48
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39
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83,
84 or 85..........
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1
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49
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41
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86
or 87................
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1
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51
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42
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88
or 89................
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1
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52
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43
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90,
91 or 92..........
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1
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54
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45
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93
or 94................
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1
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55
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46
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95,
96 or 97..........
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1
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57
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47
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98, 99 or 100........
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1
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59
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49
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[1] This
Order has been amended by the States of Jersey (Amendments and Construction
Provisions No. 4) (Jersey) Regulations 2005. The amendments replace all
references to a Committee of the States of Jersey with a reference to a
Minister of the States of Jersey, and remove and add defined terms
appropriately, consequentially upon the move from a committee system of
government to a ministerial system of government.
[2] Schedule 1 substituted
by R&O.9287
[3] Schedule 2 Part
1 amended by R&O.9287
[4] Schedule 2 Part
2 amended by R&O.9287
[5] Schedule 2 Part
3, editorial change, “27 or2” deleted, “27 or 28”
inserted instead