{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-17A.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/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any measure of length marked in accordance with regulation 17 of these Regulations may, if only one graduated side is marked in metric units of measurement, have its other side marked with supplementary indications ... provided that the zero indications of the scale marked in metric units of measurement and of the scale marked in supplementary indications both lie in the same plane perpendicular to its length.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17A inserted (7.11.1994 immediately after S.I. 1994/2867 comes into force) by The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1851), regs. 1, 2(1), Sch. Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17A omitted (1.1.2010) by virtue of The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3045), regs. 1, 3(2)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1682/regulation/17A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:40:43.844688+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."
}