SCHEDULE
Regulation 2
AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACTS 1963 AND 1985
PART I
AMENDMENTS TO BE MADE ON THE COMING INTO FORCE OF THESE REGULATIONS
Regulations |
Amendments |
The Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 19833 |
In regulation 12 in paragraph (1) for “section 1(4) of the Weights and Measures &c. Act 1976” and in paragraph (2) for “Regulation 10(2) and (4) of the Units of Measurement Regulations 1980” substitute “section 92 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985” and “paragraph 14(1) and (3) of Schedule 11 to the Weights and Measures Act 1985”, respectively. After regulation 12 insert— “12A. Where any of the following indicate quantity by means of a metric unit of measurement— (a) any marking required by regulation 11(1)(b) or (c); (b) any totalisation indicating device; they may also indicate quantity by means of a supplementary indication.”. |
The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel Delivered from Road Tankers) Regulations 19834 |
After regulation 11 insert— “11A. Any sales indicator reading on a contents gauging system reading in litres may also indicate quantity by means of a supplementary indication.”.”. After regulation 16 insert— “16A. Any sales indicator reading on a meter measuring system reading in litres may also indicate quantity by means of a supplementary indication.”. |
The Measuring Equipment (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 19835 |
After regulation 7 insert— “7A. Where its nominal quantity is indicated on measuring equipment in metric units of measurement it may be indicated also by means of a supplementary indication.”. |
The Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 19866 |
After regulation 12 insert— “12A. Where either the indication of the exact quantity of material a filling machine purports to weigh or the visual indication of the weight of individual quantities of materials weighed by a discontinuous totaliser is given in metric units of measurement that indication may also be given by means of a supplementary indication.”. |
The Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 19867 |
After regulation 17 insert— “17A. Any measure of length marked in accordance with regulation 17 of these Regulations may, if only one graduated side is marked in metric units of measurement, have its other side marked with supplementary indications provided that the zero indications of the scale marked in metric units of measurement and of the scale marked in supplementary indications both lie in the same plane perpendicular to its length.”. |
The Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 19888 |
In regulation 10 after paragraph (5) add— “6 Every capacity serving measure marked in accordance with this regulation with its nominal capacity in a metric unit of measurement may also be marked with a supplementary indication of its nominal capacity.”. |
The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations 19889 |
After regulation 7 insert— “7A. Any indication on measuring equipment referring in metric units of measurement to the quantity of liquid fuel delivered may be accompanied by a supplementary indication.”. |
The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 198810 |
In regulation 16 in paragraph (1) in sub-paragraph (a) delete the words “or symbol”. After regulation 16 insert— “16A. Where a weight indicating device of a non-automatic weighing machine indicates the weight of a load in metric units of measurement that indication may also be given by means of a supplementary indication.”. |
PART II
AMENDMENTS TO BE MADE ON 1ST OCTOBER 1995
Regulations |
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The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel Delivered from Road Tankers) Regulations 1983 |
In regulation 3 in paragraph (1) omit “20 gallons if the equipment is constructed to measure in imperial units, or” and “if it is constructed to measure in metric units”. In regulations 11 and 16 omit “or gallons”. In regulation 24 in paragraph (1) omit “either” and “or the gallon”. |
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The Measuring Equipment (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1983 |
In regulation 2 for “one quart” substitute “2 pints”. In regulation 7 in paragraph (a) for the Table substitute— FORM OF INDICATION OF NOMINAL QUANTITY
In regulation 14 in paragraph (1) in the Table for “⅙ gill”, for “½ gill” in both places where it occurs and for “1 quart” substitute “20 millilitres”, “75 millilitres” and “2 pints”, respectively. |
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The Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986 |
In regulation 2 omit “or imperial” from the definition of “nominal length”. In regulation 17— for paragraph (a) substitute— “(a) on one or on each graduated side, its nominal length expressed in one only of the following metric units of measurement in full or by means of one of the following abbreviations or symbols only:—
in paragraph (c) omit— “in metric units or ten feet in imperial units”. For regulation 24 substitute— “24. The prescribed limits of error relating to measures of length shall be 0.6 millimetre plus 0.4 millimetre per metre (rounded up to the next whole metre) of nominal length.”. |
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The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Linear Measures) Regulations 198611 |
In regulation 3 in paragraph (2) omit the words after “0.2millimetre”. For the Tables in Schedule 1 substitute— TABLE 1 LOCAL STANDARD LINEAR MEASURES PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF ERROR
TABLE 2 WORKING STANDARD LINEAR MEASURES PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF ERROR
In Schedule 2 omit “or 10 feet” in both places where those words occur. |
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The Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1988 |
In regulation 2 in paragraph (2) omit—
In regulation 3 in paragraph (1) omit— “4 fl oz”, “5 fl oz (1 gill)”, “6 fl oz”, “8 fl oz”, “(1 quart)”, and “(½ gal)”. In regulation 10 in paragraph (1) omit “fluid ounces or” and “fl oz”; in paragraph (3)(a) for “10 fl oz” substitute “½ pint”. In the Schedule in Table 2 omit—
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The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations 1988 |
In regulation 2 in paragraph (1) omit “20 gallons if it is constructed to measure in imperial units, or” and “if it is constructed to measure in metric units”. In regulation 17 in paragraph (1)(d) omit “and” after “the stamp” and omit paragraph (1)(e). In regulation 24 in paragraph (1)(b) for “gallon (or per half a gallon or per litre as the case may be)” substitute “litre”. |
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The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 199012 |
In regulation 2 for paragraph (2) substitute— “2 The abbreviations of, and symbols for, units of measurement used in these Regulations refer to the relevant units as follows:
In regulation 3 in paragraph (1) under the heading “Method 1” in sub-paragraph (a) for “1 gal” substitute “8 pt”. In regulation 4 in paragraph (b) in sub-paragraph (i) omit “or 10 gal or less” and in sub-paragraph (ii), “or more than 10 gal”. In Schedule 3 in the Table headed “WORKING STANDARD CAPACITY MEASURES AND TESTING EQUIPMENT” for the column headed “(a) Imperial” substitute— (a) Imperial
in the Table headed “GRADUATED MEASURING CYLINDERS” for “¼ gal” and “½ gal” substitute “2 pt” and “4 pt”, respectively. In Schedule 4 in the Table headed “LOCAL STANDARD CAPACITY MEASURES” for... |
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