{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capacity-serving-measures-intoxicating-liquor-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capacity-serving-measures-intoxicating-liquor-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/120",
  "legislation_title": "The Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capacity-serving-measures-intoxicating-liquor-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations —\n“the Act” means the Weights and Measures Act 1985;\n“analogue” means capable of assigning any value or position within a continuous range;\n“capacity serving measure” means a capacity measure made of transparent glass or plastic and intended to determine a specified volume of intoxicating liquor for delivery to the consumer;\n“digital” means capable of assigning only certain discrete values or positions within a continuous range by a series of discontinuous steps;\n“discrimination threshold” means, in the case of weighing equipment with a digital indicator, the weight which produces a change of reading of one digit, and in the case of weighing equipment with an analogue indicator, the weight which produces a 1 millimetre movement of the pointer; and\n“the stamp” means the prescribed stamp.\n(2) The abbreviations of, and symbols for, units of measurement used in these Regulations refer to the relevant units as follows —\nImperial System\nMetric System\nfluid ounce\nfl oz\ngram\ng\npint\npt\nmillilitre\nml\ngallon\ngal\nmillimetre\nmm\nlitre\nl or L\nDegree Celsius …°C",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See 1968/1615."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1851",
      "affecting_title": "The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/120/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:43.406552+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}