{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-metrication-amendments-regulations-1994/schedule/part-II",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1851",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-metrication-amendments-regulations-1994",
  "path": "schedule/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "AMENDMENTS TO BE MADE ON 1ST OCTOBER 1995",
  "text": "Regulations\nAmendments\nThe Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel Delivered from Road Tankers) Regulations 1983\nIn regulation 3 in paragraph (1) omit “20 gallons if the equipment is constructed to measure in imperial units, or” and “if it is constructed to measure in metric units”.\nIn regulations 11 and 16 omit “or gallons”.\nIn regulation 24 in paragraph (1) omit “either” and “or the gallon”.\nThe Measuring Equipment (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1983\nIn regulation 2 for “one quart” substitute “2 pints”.\nIn regulation 7 in paragraph (a) for the Table substitute—\n“\nFORM OF INDICATION OF NOMINAL QUANTITY\nNominal Quantity\nAbbreviated or permitted alternative\nOne third pint …\n⅓ pt\nHalf pint …\n½ pt\nPint …\npt\nTwo pints …\n2 pt\nQuarter litre …\n¼ litre\n(or 25 cl or 250 ml)\n”.\nIn regulation 14 in paragraph (1) in the Table for “⅙ gill”, for “½ gill” in both places where it occurs and for “1 quart” substitute “20 millilitres”, “75 millilitres” and “2 pints”, respectively.\nThe Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986\nIn regulation 2 omit “or imperial” from the definition of “nominal length”.\nIn regulation 17—\nfor paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) on one or on each graduated side, its nominal length expressed in one only of the following metric units of measurement in full or by means of one of the following abbreviations or symbols only:—\nmetre\nm\ncentimetre\ncm\nmillimetre\nmm;\n”; and\nin paragraph (c) omit—\n“in metric units or ten feet in imperial units”.\nFor regulation 24 substitute—\n“24 The prescribed limits of error relating to measures of length shall be 0.6 millimetre plus 0.4 millimetre per metre (rounded up to the next whole metre) of nominal length.”.\nThe Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Linear Measures) Regulations 1986\nIn regulation 3 in paragraph (2) omit the words after “0.2millimetre”.\nFor the Tables in Schedule 1 substitute—\n“\nTABLE 1\nLOCAL STANDARD LINEAR MEASURES PRESCRIBED LIMITS OF ERROR\nMeasure\nLimit of Error\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\nMeasure\nLimit of Error\nNote: Where Regulation 3(2) applies the limits of error in this Table are increased in accordance with that Regulation\n1 metre or less\n0.5 millilitre\nover 1 metre\n0.3 millilitre plus 0.2 millimetre per metre of length\n”.\nIn Schedule 2 omit “or 10 feet” in both places where those words occur.\nThe Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1988\nIn regulation 2 in paragraph (2) omit—\n“\nfluid ounce\nfl oz\n” and\n“\ngallon\ngal\n”.\nIn regulation 3 in paragraph (1) omit—\n“4 fl oz”, “5 fl oz (1 gill)”,\n“6 fl oz”, “8 fl oz”, “(1 quart)”,\nand “(½ gal)”.\nIn regulation 10\nin paragraph (1) omit “fluid ounces or” and “fl oz”;\nin paragraph (3)(a) for “10 fl oz” substitute “½ pint”.\nIn the Schedule in Table 2 omit—\n“\n4 fl oz\n5.5\n5 fl oz\n7\n6 fl oz\n8.5\n”, and\n“\n8 fl oz\n10\n”.\nThe Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations 1988\nIn regulation 2 in paragraph (1) omit “20 gallons if it is constructed to measure in imperial units, or” and “if it is constructed to measure in metric units”.\nIn regulation 17 in paragraph (1)(d) omit “and” after “the stamp” and omit paragraph (1)(e).\nIn regulation 24 in paragraph (1)(b) for “gallon (or per half a gallon or per litre as the case may be)” substitute “litre”.\nThe Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1990\nIn regulation 2 for paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) The abbreviations of, and symbols for, units of measurement used in these Regulations refer to the relevant units as follows:\npint\npt\nmillilitre\nml\nlitre\nl.\n”.\nIn regulation 3 in paragraph (1) under the heading “Method 1” in sub-paragraph (a) for “1 gal” substitute “8 pt”.\nIn regulation 4 in paragraph (b) in sub-paragraph (i) omit “or 10 gal or less” and in sub-paragraph (ii), “or more than 10 gal”.\nIn Schedule 3 in the Table headed “WORKING STANDARD CAPACITY MEASURES AND TESTING EQUIPMENT” for the column headed “(a) Imperial” substitute—\n“\n(a) Imperial Indicated capacity of or tolerance mark relating to—\nLimit of error\n⅓ pt or ½ pt\n0.8 ml\n1 pt\n1.0 ml\n2 pt\n2.0 ml\n4 pt\n2.0 ml\n8 pt\n5.0 ml\n16 pt\n10.0 ml\n”.\nin the Table headed “GRADUATED MEASURING CYLINDERS” for “¼ gal” and “½ gal” substitute “2 pt” and “4 pt”, respectively.\nIn Schedule 4 in the Table headed “LOCAL STANDARD CAPACITY MEASURES” for the column headed “(a) Imperial” substitute—\n“\n(a) Imperial Local standard of—\nLimit of error\n⅓ pt or ½ pt\n0.4 ml\n1 pt\n0.5 ml\n2 pt\n1.0 ml\n4 pt\n1.0 ml\n8 pt\n2.5 ml\n16 pt\n5.0 ml\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1684."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/2626."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/932",
      "affecting_title": "The Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked in part",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/356",
      "affecting_title": "The Weights and Measures (Revocations) Regulations 2015"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1851/schedule/part/II",
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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."
}