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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/48",
  "legislation_title": "Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-capacity-measures-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prescribed limits of error for capacity measures other than dispensing measures for pharmaceutical purposes",
  "text": "Nominal Capacity\nLimits of error\nMetric\nImperial\nLine measure, in excess and in deficiency\nBrim measure, in excess only\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\nfor measuring intoxicating liquor only.\nNotes:\n1.The limit of error in relation to any scale mark on a subdivided 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.References to imperial measures shall be to their use for measuring beer and cider only.\n20 l\n100 ml\n200 ml\n10 l\n16 pt\n50 ml\n100 ml\n5 l\n8 pt\n25 ml\n50 ml\n2.5 or 2 l\n... 4 pt\n12 ml\n24 ml\n1 l\n2 pt\n10 ml\n20 ml\n500 ml\n1 pt\n5 ml\n10 ml\n250 ml\n½ pt\n4 ml\n8 ml\n200 ml\n⅓ pt\n4 ml\n8 ml\n175 ml\n3.5 ml\n7 ml\n150 ml\n3 ml\n6 ml\n125 ml\n2.5 ml\n5 ml\n100 ml, 70 ml*\n2 ml\n4 ml\n50 ml\n2 ml\n4 ml\n25 ml, 35 ml\n2 ml\n4 ml\n20 ml\n2 ml\n4 ml\n10 ml\n1 ml\n2 ml\n5 ml\n0.5 ml\n1 ml\n2 ml\n0.2 ml\n0.4 ml\n1 ml\n0.1 ml\n0.2 ml",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Table deleted (1.10.2004) by Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/371), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Table substituted (1.10.2004) by Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/371), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 in operation at 1.4.1998, 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/nisr/1998/48/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:22.531026+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."
}