{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-container-bottles-eec-requirements-regulations-1977/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-container-bottles-eec-requirements-regulations-1977/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/932",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Container Bottles (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-container-bottles-eec-requirements-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Any manufacturer or importer who—\n(a) sells or has in his possession for sale a batch of measuring container bottles marked with the EEC signUK marking but not complying with these Regulations; or\n(b) sells or has in his possession for sale measuring container bottles marked with the EEC signUK marking which is less than 3mm high;\n(c) systematically exploits the maximum permissible limits of error set out in the table in section 3 of Annex I of the Directiveat paragraph 1 of Schedule 2;\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Any manufacturer who—\n(a) without reasonable cause fails to keep production control records or to preserve such records in accordance with Regulation 7(1); or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) makes any production control record which he knows to be false, or with intent to deceive alters or causes to be altered such records;\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Any person who without reasonable cause fails to comply with directions given in accordance with ...Regulation 9 shall be guilty of an offence\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) Any person other than a manufacturer or a person marking it to the order of a manufacturer, who marks a measuring container bottle with the EEC signUK marking shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(1)(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 9(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(1)(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 9(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(1)(c) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 9(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 10(2)(b) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 7(a) (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 10(3) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 7(a) (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(4) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 7(b) (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 10(5)(6) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 7(c) (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(7) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 9(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 29.6.1977, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/932/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:58:30.262532+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."
}