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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1995/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/735",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF ERROR FOR CAPACITY MEASURES OTHER THAN DISPENSING MEASURES FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES",
  "text": "Normal Capacity\nLimits for error\nImperial\nMetric\nLine measure, in excess and in deficiency\nBrim measure, in excess only\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\n*for measuring intoxicating liquor only.\nNotes:\n1.The limit of error in relation to any scale mark on a sub-divided or graduated measure shall be that specified for a measure of nominal capacity equivalent to the amount which the scale mark is intended to denote, or where the nominal capacity equivalent to the amount does not appear in this Schedule it shall be calculated by interpolation.\n2.On and after 1st October 1995—\n(a)the foregoing table shall have effect with the omission in column 1 of the references to 5, 4 or 3 gal, 2 gal, 1 gal, ½ gal, 1 qt, 8 fl oz, 6 fl oz, 1 gill, 4 fl oz, ½ gill, ⅖, ⅓ gill, ¼, ⅕ gill and ⅙ gill; and\n(b)references to imperial measures shall be to their use for measuring beer and cider only.\n5, 4 or 3 gal\n20 l\n100 ml\n200 ml\n2 gal, 16 pt\n10 l\n50 ml\n100 ml\n1 gal, 8 pt\n5 l\n25 ml\n50 ml\n½ gal, 4 pt\n2.5 or 2 l\n12 ml\n24 ml\n1 qt, 2 pt\n1 l\n10 ml\n20 ml\n1 pt\n500 ml\n5 ml\n10 ml\n½ pt\n250 ml\n4 ml\n8 ml\n8 fl oz or ⅓ pt\n200 ml\n4 ml\n8 ml\n6 fl oz\n175 ml\n3.5 ml\n7 ml\n1 gill\n150 ml\n3 ml\n6 ml\n4 fl oz\n125 ml\n2.5 ml\n5 ml\n½ gill\n100 ml, 70 ml*\n2 ml\n4 ml\n⅖, ⅓ gill\n50 ml\n2 ml\n4 ml\n¼, ⅕ gill\n25 ml, 35 ml\n2 ml\n4 ml\n⅙ gill\n20 ml\n2 ml\n4 ml\n10 ml\n1 ml\n2 ml\n4 ml\n0.5 ml\n1 ml\n2 ml\n0.2 ml\n0.4 ml\n1 ml\n0.1 ml\n0.2 ml",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Note 2 inserted (3.4.2001) by The Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/599), regs. 1, 4(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Table substituted (3.4.2001) by The Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/599), regs. 1, 4(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 in force at 10.4.1995, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "*for measuring intoxicating liquor only."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/735/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:11.400557+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."
}