{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-equipment-measures-of-length-regulations-1986/regulation-24",
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  "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/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The prescribed limits of error relating to measures of length shall be 0.6 millimetre plus 0.4 millimetre per metre (rounded up to the next whole metre) of nominal length.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 24 substituted (1.10.1995) by The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1851), regs. 1, 2(2), Sch. Pt. II"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1682/regulation/24",
    "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."
}