{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/price-marking-order-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/price-marking-order-1999/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3042",
  "legislation_title": "The Price Marking Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/price-marking-order-1999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Obligation to indicate unit price",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) (3) and (4) below, where a trader indicates that any product is or may be for sale to a consumer he shall indicate the unit price of that product in accordance with the provisions of this Order.\n(2) The requirement in paragraph (1) shall apply only in respect of any product sold from bulk or required by or under Parts IV or V of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 to be:\n(a) marked with an indication of quantity; or\n(b) made up in a quantity prescribed by or under that Act.\n(3) The requirement in paragraph (1) of this article shall not apply in relation to any product:\n(a) which is listed in Schedule 2;\n(b) the unit price of which is identical to its selling price; or\n(c) which is pre-packaged in a constant quantity and sold:\n(i) in a small shop;\n(ii) by an itinerant trader; or\n(iii) from a vending machine.\n(4) The requirement in paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to an advertisement for a product only where the selling price of a product is indicated in the advertisement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 72."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3042/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:40.551976+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."
}