{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-miscellaneous-foods-order-1988/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-miscellaneous-foods-order-1988/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2040",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-miscellaneous-foods-order-1988",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provision for the containers of certain foods not sold by retail to be accompanied by a document indicating quantity",
  "text": "(1) In the case of solid and paste coffee and chicory products, cocoa products and chocolate products, honey, caseins and caseinates or preserved milk for human consumption pre-packed or ... made up in a container for relevant wholesale, the information required by article 3(2) above or, as the case may be, 7, 9(2) or 12 below to be marked on the container may, if:—\n(a) the foods are not sold by retail; and\n(b) the net weight of the foods is not less than the particular quantities specified in paragraph (2) below in relation to the foods,\nbe given at the time when they are sold in a document accompanying the container and containing an indication of quantity by net weight ... .\n(2) The quantities referred to in paragraph (1) above are:\nsolid and paste coffee and chicory products\n5 kg\ncocoa products and chocolate products\n10 kg\nhoney\n10 kg\ncaseins and caseinates\n10 kg\npreserved milk for human consumption\n10 kg",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 4(1) omitted (13.12.2014) by virtue of The Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2975), regs. 1, 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) substituted (13.12.2014) by The Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2975), regs. 1, 22(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) omitted (1.10.1995) by virtue of The Weights and Measures (Metrication) (Miscellaneous Goods) (Amendment) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2868), art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 1.1.1989, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2040/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:31.666074+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}