{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-capacity-measures-and-testing-equipment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and revocation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into operation on 16th February 1987.\n(2) 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 are hereby revoked insofar as they relate to capacity measures and capacity testing equipment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1710; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1983/1654"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1714"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/1436"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/1719"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1654"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/51/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:34:04.518670+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."
}