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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-linear-measures-regulations-1986/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1684",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Linear Measures) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-local-and-working-standard-linear-measures-regulations-1986",
  "path": "schedule/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "TABLE 1\nLOCAL STANDARD LINEAR MEASURES PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF ERROR\nImperial\nLimit of Error\n1 inch\n0.004 inch\n6 inches, 1 foot, 2 feet or 1 yard\n0.008 inch\nover 1 yard\n0.004 inch plus 0.004 inch per yard of length\nMetric\n1 centimetre\n0.05 millimetre\n1 decimetre\n0.1 millimetre\n0.5 metre or 1 metre\n0.2 millimetre\nover one metre\n0.1 millimetre plus 0.1 millimetre per metre of length\nTABLE 2\nWORKING STANDARD LINEAR MEASURES PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF ERROR\nImperial\nLimit of Error\n1 yard or less\n0.02 inch\nover 1 yard\n0.012 inch plus 0.008 inch per yard of length\nMetric\n1 metre or less\n0.5 millimetre\nover 1 metre\n0.3 millimetre plus 0.2 millimetre per metre of length\nNote: Where Regulation 3(2) applies the limits of error in this Table are increased in accordance with that Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1851",
      "affecting_title": "The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1851",
      "affecting_title": "The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1684/schedule/1",
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  },
  "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."
}