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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-weights-and-measures-specified-quantities-unwrapped-bread-and-intoxicating-liquor-order-2011/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111513156",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Specified Quantities) (Unwrapped Bread and Intoxicating Liquor) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-weights-and-measures-specified-quantities-unwrapped-bread-and-intoxicating-liquor-order-2011",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988 is amended as follows.\n(2) For article 6 (bread) substitute—\n“Unwrapped Bread\n6. (1) For the purposes of this article “unwrapped loaf of bread” means a loaf of bread which is not made up in advance ready for retail sale or wholesale in a securely closed container and includes bread offered for sale in a confining band.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an unwrapped loaf of bread may be made for sale only if—\n(a) an indication of the quantity of the bread is given on a ticket displayed in immediate proximity to that loaf; or\n(b) there is displayed, in such a position and manner as to be readily available without special request for inspection by a buyer before any sale is made, a notice—\n(i) listing the forms in which unwrapped loaves of bread are made for sale; and\n(ii) indicating the quantity or quantities in which each such form is made for sale.\n(3) The following are exempt from the requirements of paragraph (2)—\n(a) any unwrapped loaf of bread in a quantity of 400 g or a multiple of 400 g;\n(b) any unwrapped loaf of bread weighing 300 g or less; and\n(c) any sale under a contract for the supply of bread for consumption on the premises of the buyer if the contract provides for each delivery of bread to be of a specified aggregate quantity of not less than 25 kg and for the weighing of the bread on delivery.”.\n(3) In Schedule 1—\n(a) in column 2, omit “400 g or a multiple of 400 g.”; and\n(b) in column 3, omit the words from “(1) where the net weight of each loaf is 300 g or less” to “and for the weighing of the bread on delivery.”\nopposite the entry “Bread in the form of a whole loaf” in column 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/2040, amended by S.I. 2009/663."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:53:10.250452+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."
}