{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1682",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Every measure of length shall be conspicuously, legibly and durably marked (in the case of a flexible measure, near the beginning of the measure) with the following items—\n(a) on one or on each graduated side, its nominal length expressed in one only of the following metric units of measurement in full or by means of one of the following abbreviations or symbols only:—\nmetre\nm\ncentimetre\ncm\nmillimetre\nmm;\n(b) the name or trade mark of the manufacturer of the measure; and\n(c) its tractive force, if it is a flexible measure with a nominal length exceeding five metres ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17(a) substituted (1.10.1995) by The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1851), regs. 1, 2(2), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(c) omitted (1.10.1995) by virtue of The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1851), regs. 1, 2(2), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 27.10.1986, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1682/regulation/17",
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  },
  "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."
}