{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-regulations-1963/regulation-67",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-regulations-1963/regulation-67.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1963/1710",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights and Measures Regulations 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-and-measures-regulations-1963",
  "path": "regulation/67",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "67",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Weighing instruments used in any of the following transactions, that is to say, transactions—\n(a) in gold, silver or other precious metals,\n(b) in precious stones,\n(c) in jewellery,\n(d) in silk,\n(e) by retail in drugs or other pharmaceutical products,\nshall either—\n(i) be balances, or\n(ii) being instruments other than balances, fall within the prescribed limits of error for beam scales marked “Class B”.\n(2) Weighing instruments used in retail transactions in tobacco shall either—\n(a) be balances, or\n(b) being instruments other than balances, fall within the prescribed limits of error for beam scales marked “Class B” or “Class C”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/186",
      "affecting_title": "The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1963/1710/regulation/67",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:14:13.296211+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."
}