{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-act-1963-various-foods-amendment-order-1985/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-act-1963-various-foods-amendment-order-1985/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/988",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures Act 1963 (Various Foods) (Amendment) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-act-1963-various-foods-amendment-order-1985",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Weights and Measures Act 1963 (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1984 is hereby amended as follows:—\n(a) after Article 12 there shall be inserted the following Article:—\n“12A Potatoes, which are not pre-packed shall, if sold by retail, be sold only—\n(a) by net weight; or\n(b) if the food is sold in a container which does not exceed the appropriate permitted weight specified in the Table in Schedule 1A to this Order, either by net weight or gross weight.”;\n(b) in Schedule 1\n(i) in respect of coffee extracts and chicory extracts consisting of solid and paste coffee and chicory products in column 2 the imperial units of measurement shall be deleted; and\n(ii) in respect of honey, jam and marmalade, jelly preserves, molasses, syrup and treacle in column 2 the words “1 oz” shall be deleted and in column 3 for the words **“½ oz” there shall be substituted the words “50 g”; and\n(c) after Schedule 1 there shall be inserted as Schedule 1A the Schedule to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/2040",
      "affecting_title": "The Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/988/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:08:24.689709+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."
}