{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1994/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1994/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2867",
  "legislation_title": "The Units of Measurement Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Act in 1994",
  "text": "(1) On the coming into force of these Regulations the Act shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 8 for subsection (5) there shall be substituted the following—\n“(5) The proceding provisions have effect subject to—\n(a) subsection (5A) below, and\n(b) sections 9 and 89 below.\n(5A) Nothing in this section precludes the use for trade of any supplementary indication; and for this purpose any indication of quantity (“the imperial indication”) is a supplementary indication if—\n(a) it is expressed in a unit of measurement other than a metric unit,\n(b) it accompanies an indication of quantity expressed in a metric unit (“the metric indication”) and is not itself authorised for use in the circumstances as a primary indication of quantity, and\n(c) the metric indication is the more prominent, the imperial indication being, in particular, expressed in characters no larger than those of the metric indication.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2867/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:30.906817+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."
}