{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1994/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1994/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Act in 2000",
  "text": "(1) On 1st January 2000 the Act shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In section 1(6) (inserted in section 1 by regulation 6(2)(c) above) the words after “(supplementary indications)”shall be omitted.\n(3) In Schedule 1—\n(a) in Part IV—\n(i) for the heading “ Imperial units”there shall be substituted “ Imperial unit”;and\n(ii) the definition of the fluid ounce shall be omitted;\n(b) in Part V—\n(i) for the heading “ Imperial units”there shall be substituted “ Imperial unit”;\n(ii) the definitions of the pound and the ounce shall be omitted; and\n(iii) for the definition of the ounce troy there shall be substituted—\n“OUNCE TROY = 0.031 103 476 8 kilogram.”;\n(c) in Part VI—\n(i) after the definition of the gill there shall be inserted—\n“Fluid ounce = 1/20 pint.”; and\n(ii) after the definition of the stone there shall be inserted—\n“POUND = 0.453 592 37 kilogram.\nOunce = 1/16 pound.”.\n(4) In Schedule 11 in paragraph 17 the following shall be omitted—\n(a) in sub–paragraph (1)(b) “stones, quarters, hundredweights or tons,”; and\n(b) sub–paragraph (2)(a) and “or”immediately following it.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}