{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-product-safety-and-metrology-etc-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-27/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-product-safety-and-metrology-etc-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-27/paragraph-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111180402",
  "legislation_title": "The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-product-safety-and-metrology-etc-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/27/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 51",
  "text": "For regulation 51 (general principles relating to the M marking), substitute—\n“Prohibition on improper use of the UK marking and the M marking\n51. (1) An economic operator must not affix the UK marking or the M marking to a regulated measuring instrument unless—\n(a) that economic operator is the manufacturer of the regulated measuring instrument; and\n(b) the conformity of the regulated measuring instrument with the essential requirements has been demonstrated by a relevant conformity assessment procedure.\n(2) An economic operator must not affix a marking to a regulated measuring instrument which is not the UK marking or the M marking but which purports to attest that the regulated measuring instrument satisfies the essential requirements.\n(3) An economic operator must not affix to a regulated measuring instrument a marking, sign or inscription which is likely to mislead any other person as to the meaning or form of the marking.\n(4) An economic operator must not affix to a regulated measuring instrument any other marking if the visibility, legibility and meaning of the UK marking or the M marking would be impaired as a result.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111180402/schedule/27/paragraph/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:00:57.296945+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."
}