{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1804",
  "legislation_title": "The Units of Measurement Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/units-of-measurement-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Act”includes a local and personal or private Act, an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly;\n“the commencement date”, subject to regulation 4 below, means 1st October 1995;\n“corresponding metric unit”, in relation to a relevant imperial unit, means the unit of measurement specified in relation to the relevant imperial unit in the second column of the Schedule to these Regulations;\n“existing provision” means any of the following, namely—\n(a) a provision of any Act passed, or of any subordinate legislation made, before the commencement date;\n(b) a provision of any contract, agreement, licence, authority, undertaking or statement made or given before that date; and\n(c) a provision of any deed, instrument or document made before that date;\n“relevant imperial unit” means a unit of measurement specified in the first column of the Schedule to these Regulations;\n“subordinate legislation” means Orders in Council, orders, rules, regulations, schemes, warrants, byelaws and other instruments made under any Act; and\n“the Units of Measurement Directive” means the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 20th December 1979 (No. 80/181/EEC) on the approximation of the laws of member States relating to units of measurement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L39, 15.2.80, p.40; the Directive has been amended by Council Directives 85/1/EEC and 89/617/EEC."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1804/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:44.007480+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."
}