{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1988-revoked/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1988-revoked/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/186",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1988-revoked",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES\nMade 9th February 1988\nLaid before Parliament 18th February 1988\nComing into force 14th March 1988\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the regulation of specifications, construction, placing on the market and use of equipment intended for weighing, measuring or testing or for purposes ancillary thereto, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked with savings (1.12.2015) by The Weights and Measures (Revocations) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/356), reg. 1(2)(b), Sch. Pt. 2 para. 3 (with Sch. Pt. 2 para. 5 (as amended on IP completion day by S.I. 2019/696, reg. 1, Sch. 17 para. 1(3)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations applied (with modifications) (15.3.1988) by The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Gas Volume Meters) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/296), regs. 1, 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations modified (E.W.S.) (11.3.1996) by The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Gas Volume Meters) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/319), regs. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/427."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with section 32(7) and (9) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), and S.I. 1984/447, as regards Scotland, with section 289B(4) and (6) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), as inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 11 to the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45) and amended by section 55(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and S.I. 1984/526 and, as regards Northern Ireland, with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I.3) and S.R.(N.I.) 1984 No. 253."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/186/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:17.437867+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."
}