{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-regulations-1986/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-regulations-1986/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1683",
  "legislation_title": "The Weights Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weights-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Obliteration of stamps",
  "text": "(1) Where a weight bearing the stamp is found by an inspector to be heavier or lighter than its purported mass by more than the prescribed limit of error set out in column 3 of the relevant Table in Schedule 4 to these Regulations he shall either obliterate the stamp or serve upon the person in possession of the weight a notice requiring him to have it adjusted within 28 days.\n(2) Where a notice is served as aforesaid and the weight is consequently retested after the expiration of that period and found to be outside the said prescribed limit of error, the inspector shall obliterate the stamp on it.\n(3) Where a weight bearing the stamp is found by an inspector not to comply with any other appropriate requirement of Part II of these Regulations, he shall obliterate the stamp on it.\n(4) The stamp shall be obliterated by an inspector, in accordance with the requirements of this Regulation, by impressing on it a design in the form of a six-pointed star as shown in the following illustration:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1683/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:40:43.032146+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."
}