{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-container-bottles-eec-requirements-regulations-1977/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-container-bottles-eec-requirements-regulations-1977/schedule-3/paragraph-2.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": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "MEASURING THE CAPACITY OF THE MEASURING CONTAINER BOTTLES CONSTITUTING THE SAMPLE",
  "text": "The measuring container bottles shall be weighed empty.\nThey shall be filled with water at 20C of a known density, up to the filling level appropriate to the method of checking used.\nThey shall then be weighed in full.\nThe check shall be carried out by means of a legal measuring instrument, suitable for effecting the necessary operations.\nError in measuring the capacity shall not be greater than one-fifth of the maximum permissible error corresponding to the nominal capacity of the measuring container bottle.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 inserted (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. 11 (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/932/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}