# The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations replace the Weights and Measures (Local Standards: Limits of Error) Regulations 1970, the Working Standards and Testing Equipment (Testing and Adjustment) Regulations 1970, the Weights and Measures (Local Standards: Periods of Validity) Regulations 1979, the Working Standards and Testing Equipment (Testing and Adjustment) (Amendment) Regulations 1979 and the Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures) Regulations 1983 insofar as they relate to local and working standard capacity measures and related testing equipment.
They prescribe the methods of testing and adjusting, and the limits of error for, working standard capacity measures and testing equipment used for measuring by inspectors of weights and measures. They also make provision for limits of error for local standard capacity measures and for the periods of validity of certificates of fitness of these local standards.
The Regulations make the following changes of substance:
(a) working standard capacity measures used for measuring need only be tested within one year before use in the case of glass measures, six months in the case of metal measures of 50 litres, 10 gallons or less, and two years in the case of metal measures exceeding 50 litres or 10 gallons (previously at intervals of not more than six months) regulation 4);
(b) the prescribed limits of error for working standards consisting of graduated measuring cylinders have been relaxed (Regulation 15(2)); and
(c) limits of error are now prescribed for a wider range of displacement plungers up to 500 ml (previously there were errors for 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 or 1 fluid ounce only) (Schedule 2).
Copies of British Standards (see Regulation 3(1)) can be obtained from the sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution (BSI) or by post from the BSI at Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/51/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1987/note
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