Explanatory note
These Regulations prescribe the methods of testing and adjusting, and the limits of error for, working standard linear measures used for measuring by inspectors of weights and measures. They also make provision for limits of error for local standard linear measures and for the periods of validity of certificates of fitness of those local standards. The Regulations replace the Weights and Measures (Local Standards: Limits of Error) Regulations 1970, the Working Standards and Testing Equipment (Testing and Adjustment) Regulations 1970 and the Weights and Measures (Local Standards: Periods of Validity) Regulations 1979 insofar as they relate to local and working standard linear measures.
The Regulations make the following changes of substance:
working standard linear measures used for measuring need only be tested within one year before use in the case of flexible measures or two years in the case of rigid measures (previously at intervals of not more than six months) (Regulation 2); and
new limits of error are prescribed (Regulation 3).