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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-metrication-amendments-regulations-1994/schedule/part-III",
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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/III",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "AMENDMENTS TO BE MADE ON 1ST JANUARY 2000",
  "text": "Regulations\nAmendments\nThe Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 1983\nIn regulation 2 in paragraph (2) omit—\n“\npound\nlb\n”.\nIn regulation 12 in paragraph (1) in sub-paragraph (a) after “in full” insert “though not in pounds,” and omit “lb,”; and in sub-paragraph (b) omit “or pounds” and “lb”.\nThe Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986\nIn regulation 2 in paragraph (2) omit—\n“\npound\nlb\nounce\noz\n”.\nIn regulation 12 in paragraph (1) in sub-paragraph (a) after “in full” insert “though not in pounds or ounces,” and omit “lb, oz,”; and in sub-paragraph (b) omit “or in pounds or ounces”, “abbreviations or” and “lb, oz,”.\nThe Weights Regulations 1986\nIn regulation 5 in paragraph (1) in the Table for paragraphs 3 and 4 substitute—\n“\n3. Imperial Weights (other than weights in paragraphs 4 and 5 of this table)\nBell, bar, flat-circular or ring type.\nWeights weighing in stones, quarters or hundredweights first passed as fit for use for trade and stamped before 1st December 1980.\nWeights weighing in drams first passed as fit for trade and stamped before 27th April 1978.\n4. Grain Weights\nFlat or wire type.\nAll such weights first passed as fir for use for trade and where necessary stamped before 1st December 1980.\n”.\nFor Schedule 1 substitute—\n“SCHEDULE 1\nSYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS OF UNITS OF WEIGHT AND MEASUREMENT\nRegulations 2(2) and 7(2)\nMetric\nkilogram\nkg\ngram\ng\nmilligram\nmg\ncarat (metric)\nC.M. or CM\ncubic metre\nm3\nmillimetre\nmm\nImperial\nounce troy\noz tr or oz troy\ngrain\ngr\n”.\nIn Schedule 3 for—\n“\n2. AVOIRDUPOIS EXCEPT WEIGHTS EXPRESSED AS MULTIPLES OR FRACTIONS OF 1/7000 lb.\nLocal standards or working standards\n”\nsubstitute\n“\n2. AVOIRDUPOIS EXCEPT GRAIN WEIGHTS\nLocal standards or working standards\n”.\nand for\n“\n5. WEIGHTS EXPRESSED AS MULTIPLES OR FRACTIONS OF 1/7000 lb.\n” ”\n”\nsubstitute—\n“\n5. GRAIN WEIGHTS\n” ”\n”.\nIn Schedule 4 for Table 4 substitute—\n“\nTABLE 4\nAvoirdupois weights\n1.\n2.\n3.\nPurported mass of the weight\nPrescribed limits of error on passing as fit for use for trade (+ only)\nPrescribed limits of error in relation to the obliteration of the stamp (±)\n4 stones\n4000 mg\n4000 mg\n2 stones\n2000 mg\n2000 mg\n1 stone\n1000 mg\n1000 mg\n½ stone\n560 mg\n560 mg\n8 drams\n20 mg\n20 mg\n4 drams\n15 mg\n15 mg\n2 drams\n10 mg\n10 mg\n1 dram\n5 mg\n5 mg\n½ dram\n5 mg\n5 mg\n”;\nand for the title to Table 5 substitute “Grain Weights”.\nThe Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Weights and Testing Equipment Regulations 1986\nFor Schedule 1 substitute—\n“SCHEDULE 1\nSymbols and abbreviations of units of weight\nRegulation 2\nkilogram …\nkg\ngram …\ng\nmilligram …\nmg\ncarat (metric) …\nC.M.\n”.\nIn Schedule 2 omit Tables 1 and 2 and for Table 6 substitute—\n“\nTABLE 6\nTest Weights\nWeight\nLimit of error\n5000 kg\n500 g\n2000 kg\n200 g\n1000 kg\n100 g\n500 kg\n50 g\n250 kg\n20 g\n200 kg\n20 g\n100 kg\n10 g\n50 kg\n5 g\n20 kg\n1 g\n10 kg\n500 mg\n5 kg\n250 mg\n”.\nThe Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1988\nIn regulation 2 in paragraph (2) omit—\n“\npound\nlb\n”.\nIn regulation 14 in paragraph (1) in sub-paragraph (a)(i) omit “or” and sub-paragraph (a)(ii) and in paragraph (2) omit sub- paragraph (a).\nIn regulation 16 in paragraph (1) in sub-paragraph (b) after “in full” insert “though not in pounds or ounces,” and omit “lb, oz” and in sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) for “pounds or” substitute “troy” and omit “lb, oz”.\nFor regulation 18 substitute—\n“18 Where a non-automatic weighing machine shows price expressed as an amount of money per unit of weight, such unit of weight shall be expressed per hundred grams, per kilogram or per tonne.”.\nRegulation 29 shall be omitted.\nIn Schedule 2 in paragraph 11 in Note 4 to Table 1, in paragraph 13 in Note 5 to Table 2, in paragraph 15 in Note 1 to Table 3 and in paragraph 17 in Note 1 to Table 4 for “units of the imperial system” and “imperial units” substitute “ounces troy” and in Note 5 to Table 1, Note 6 to Table 2, Note 2 to Table 3 and Note 2 to Table 4 for “imperial” substitute “ounce troy”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1685, amended by S.I. 1991/1775."
    }
  ],
  "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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  "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."
}