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Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 85

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001

Made

16th January 2001

Laid before Parliament

17th January 2001

Coming into force

8th February 2001

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 15(1) and 94(1) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 8th February 2001.

2. On the coming into force of these Regulations, the Regulations specified in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be amended in the manner specified in regulation 3(1) below.

3. —(1) In respect of each of the Regulations listed in the Schedule, after the words “supplementary indication” or “supplementary indications” where those words appear for the first time in each of the regulations specified, there shall be inserted the words “ up to and including 31st December 2009 ” .

(2) In the Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000 , after regulation 6 there shall be inserted—

“ 6A. Where the indication of the exact quantity of material a filling instrument purports to weigh is given in metric units of measurement that indication may also be given by means of a supplementary indication up to and including 31st December 2009. ” .

Kim Howells,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Consumers and Corporate Affairs,

Department of Trade and Industry

16th January 2001

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

1. Regulation 12A of the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 1983

2. Regulations 11A and 16A of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel delivered from Road Tankers) Regulations 1983

3. Regulation 7A of the Measuring Equipment (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1983

4. Regulation 12A of the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986

5. Regulation 17A of the Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986

6. Regulation 10(6) of the Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1988

7. Regulation 16(7)(b) of the Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1995

8. Regulation 8(4) of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations 1995

9. Regulation 18 of the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000

Status: There are outstanding changes not yet made by the editorial team to The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001. Any changes that have already been made by the team appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001 (2001/85)

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M11985 c. 72 ; section 94(1) contains a definition of “prescribed”.
M2S.I. 2000/388 .
M3S.I. 1983/914 , as amended by S.I. 1994/1851 .
M4S.I. 1983/1390 , as amended by S.I. 1986/1210 , 1994/1851 and 1995/3117.
M5S.I. 1983/1656 , as amended by S.I. 1984/273 and 1994/1851.
M6S.I. 1986/1320 , as amended by S.I. 1994/1851 , 1996/797 and 2000/387.
M7S.I. 1986/1682 , as amended by S.I. 1986/2109 , 1994/1851, 1996/2636 and 1996/3020.
M8S.I. 1988/120 , as amended by S.I. 1993/2060 and 1994/1851.
M9S.I. 1995/735 .
M10S.I. 1995/1014 .
M11S.I. 2000/932 .
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The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001 2001 No. 85 Sch. para. 6 revoked The Weights and Measures (Revocations) Regulations 2015 2015 No. 356 Sch. Pt. 1 para. 1 Not yet
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The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001 2001 No. 85 reg. 3(1) revoked The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2009 2009 No. 3045 reg. 4 Not yet

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