Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1322
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
The Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Order 2001
Made
2nd April 2001
Coming into force
3rd April 2001
Whereas the Secretary of State, pursuant to section 86(2) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985( 1 ), having had particular regard to the need to consult organisations representative of the interests of consumers, has consulted such organisations as appear to him to be representative of interests substantially affected by this Order:
And whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament pursuant to section 86(5) of that Act:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 8(6) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Amendment of the Weights and Measures Act 1985
2. The Weights and Measures Act 1985 shall be amended as follows—
(a) in section 8 (units of measurement, weights and measures lawful for use for trade)( 2 ), in subsection (2)(c)( 3 ), before “125”, there shall be inserted “70,”; and
(b) in Schedule 3 (measures and weights lawful for use for trade), in paragraph 2 of Part IV, between “100 millilitres” and “50 millilitres”, there shall be inserted “70 millilitres”.
Kim Howells,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Consumers and Corporate Affairs,
Department of Trade and Industry
2nd April 2001
Section 8 was amended by regulation 5 of S.I. 1994/2867 .
Section 8(2)(c) was amended by S.I. 1994/1883 . Further paragraphs were added to subsection (2) by S.I. 1994/2866 which are not relevant to the amendments made by this Order to that subsection.