{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-liquid-fuel-and-lubricants-regulations-1988/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-liquid-fuel-and-lubricants-regulations-1988/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/128",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-liquid-fuel-and-lubricants-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Passing as fit for use for trade",
  "text": "(1) No measuring equipment shall be passed as fit for use for trade unless—\n(a) it complies with all the appropriate requirements of these Regulations; and\n(b) on testing it measures and delivers the liquid fuel with which it is tested to within the prescribed limits of error when it is operated at any reasonable speed, the speed of operation in respect of any individual delivery being as uniform as practicable.\n(2) No measuring equipment fitted with a price to pay indicating device in digital form shall be passed as fit for use for trade if it is capable of indicating during a measuring operation a part of a penny in the amount of the price to be paid by the buyer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/128/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:40.514252+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."
}