{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-23A.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/23A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Statistical Sampling",
  "text": "Where the measures of length submitted for testing are manufactured in series and the person submitting them produces to the inspector a written statement made by the manufacturer that those measures have already been adequately checked, the inspector shall, at the request of that person carry out on those measures a statistical check by attributes as defined in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations in accordance with the provisions of that Schedule and shall either accept or reject those measures accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 23A, 23B inserted (25.11.1996) by The Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2636), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1682/regulation/23A",
    "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."
}