{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/29",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Descriptions Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-descriptions-act-1968",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Enforcing authorities.",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of every local weights and measures authority as defined in section 69(3) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985to enforce within their area the provisions of this Act and of any order made under this Act; . . .\n(1A) For the investigatory powers available to a local weights and measures authority for the purposes of the duty in subsection (1), see Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015.\n(2) Every local weights and measures authority shall, whenever the Board of Trade so direct, make to the Board a report on the exercise of their functions under this Act in such form and containing such particulars as the Board may direct.\n3)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Nothing in this section shall be taken as authorising a local weights and measures authority in Scotland to institute proceedings for an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted (S.) by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65, SIF 81:2), s. 214(2), Sch. 27 Pt. II para. 174(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Weights and Measures Act 1985 (c. 72, SIF 131), s. 96(1), Sch. 11 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65, SIF 81:2),s. 214(2), Sch. 27 Pt. II para. 174(a), Sch. 29 and Weights and Measures Act 1985 (c. 72, SIF 131), ss. 96(1), 98, Sch. 11 para. 21(2), Sch. 13 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 26(1A) inserted (1.10.2015) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 6 para. 3; S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 26(3)(4) repealed by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65, SIF 81:2), ss. 1, 194, Sch. 4 para. 10 and Sch. 34 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1985 c.72 (131)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 26 extended (1.1.1975) by Hallmarking Act 1973 (c. 43), s. 9(1)S. 26 extended with modifications by S.I. 1986/26, reg. 11(2) and by S.I. 1988/1586, reg. 4(2)S. 26 applied (with modifications) (23.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/2489, reg. 10(1).S. 26 restricted (23.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/2489, reg.9."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 26 applied by SI 1973/1952 reg. 8(3) (as substituted (1.10.2015) by The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 26 applied by SI 1995/2489 reg. 10(2) (as substituted (1.10.2015) by The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1630), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 26(2) extended by Control of Pollution Act 1974 (c. 40, SIF 46:4), s. 75(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 26(2)(3) extended (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 11, ss. 30(4)(5), 32, 68(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/29/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:22.375175+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."
}