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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-metrication-amendments-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3045",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-metrication-amendments-regulations-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement in part the amendments made by Directive 2009/3/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (OJ L114, 7.5.2009, p 10) to Council Directive 80/181/EEC (OJ L39, 15.2.1980, p 40), which relates to the use of units of measurement.\nRegulation 3 removes the time limit on the use of supplementary indications of quantity expressed in imperial units of measurement (31 December 2009) which is provided for in the regulations there listed. The use of supplementary indications is, therefore, permitted indefinitely.\nIn consequence of provision in regulation 3, regulation 4 partially revokes the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001, which inserted the 31 December 2009 time limit in question.\nRegulation 5 modifies the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 1983 so that, where they continue to apply to beltweighers passed as fit for use for trade prior to 28th September 2001, they are read as if the 31 December 2009 time limit were omitted.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3045/note",
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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."
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