{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-regulations-2016/schedule-6/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-regulations-2016/schedule-6/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1152",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Instruments for direct sales to the public, with a maximum capacity not greater than 100 kg: additional requirements\nInstruments for direct sale to the public shall show all essential information about the weighing operation and, in the case of price-indicating instruments, shall clearly show the customer the price calculation of the product to be purchased.\nThe price to pay, if indicated, shall be accurate.\nPrice-computing instruments shall display the essential indications long enough for the customer to read them properly.\nPrice-computing instruments may perform functions other than per-article weighing and price computation only if all indications related to all transactions are printed clearly and unambiguously and are conveniently arranged on a ticket or label for the customer.\nInstruments shall bear no characteristics that can cause, directly or indirectly, indications the interpretation of which is not easy or straightforward.\nInstruments shall safeguard customers against incorrect sales transactions due to their malfunctioning.\nAuxiliary indicating devices and extended indicating devices are not permitted.\nSupplementary devices are permitted only if they cannot lead to fraudulent use.\nInstruments similar to those normally used for direct sales to the public which do not satisfy the requirements of this Section must carry near to the display the indelible marking ‘Not to be used for direct sale to the public’.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 6-9 inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 26 para. 45 (with Sch. 26 para. 5) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1152/schedule/6/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:17:41.658041+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."
}