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Regulation 17 I1

England, Wales and Scotland

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

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—

F1(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:—

metrem
centimetrecm
millimetremm;
(b)

the name or trade mark of the manufacturer of the measure; and

(c)

its tractive force, if it is a flexible measure with a nominal length exceeding five metres F2....

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

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

F2

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

Commencement

I1

Reg. 17 in force at 27.10.1986, see reg. 1(1)