The Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods and Quantity Marking and Abbreviations of Units) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made: 13th July 1994

Laid before Parliament: 19th July 1994

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 15(1)(g), 23(1)(a) and (d), 48(1)(a), 48(1A)(ii), 49, 65, 66, 68(1), 68(1A)(a) 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:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods and Quantity Marking and Abbreviations of Units) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force immediately after the coming into force of the Units of Measurement Regulations 1994[^f00002].

Amendment of Regulations in 1994, 1995 and 2000

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• (1) On the coming into force of these Regulations the Regulations specified in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be amended in the manner specified in that Part.

• (2) On 1st October 1995 the Regulations specified in Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be amended in the manner specified in that Part.

• (3) On 1st January 2000 the Regulations specified in Part III of the Schedule to these Regulations as amended by paragraph (2) above shall be amended in the manner specified in that Part.

SCHEDULE — AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT 1985

PART I — AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS IN 1994

PART II — AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS ON 1ST OCTOBER 1995

PART III — AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS ON 1ST JANUARY 2000

Signed

Strathclyde — Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Small Firms, — Department of Trade and Industry — 13th July 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations implement the amendments made by Council Directive 89/617/EEC (OJ No. L 357, 7.12.89, p.28) to Council Directive 80/181/EEC (OJ No. L 39, 15.2.80, p.40) (“the Directive”) which relates to the use of units of measurement for economic, public health, public safety or administrative purposes (“the specified circumstances”).

They amend the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 1986 (“the Packaged Goods Regulations”) and the Weights and Measures (Quantity Marking and Abbreviations of Units) Regulations 1987 (“the Quantity Marking Regulations”).

The amendments made to the Packaged Goods Regulations include the substitution, on 1st October 1995, of metric for imperial quantities in relation to the prescribed maximum capacities of weighing instruments used for making up packaged goods under the system of quantity control known as the “average system”.

Those made to the Quantity Marking Regulations require, among other things, catchweight products to be marked, on and after 1st October 1995, with a metric indication of quantity. As a general rule the Quantity Marking Regulations will require, on and after that date, containers to be marked with metric units whilst also permitting supplementary imperial marking.

A Compliance Cost Assessment of the impact that these Regulations will have on business will be available in the libraries of the Houses of Parliament once the Regulations, having been made, are laid before Parliament and from the Consumer Affairs Division of the Department of Trade and Industry, Room 407, 10-18 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0NN.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c. 72; section 68(1) defines “regulations”, sections 48(1A) and 68(1A) have effect by virtue of the modifications to Part V of the Act made by paragraphs 2(b) and 8(b) of Part II of Schedule 3 to the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 1986 and section 94(1) defines “prescribed”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1994/2867.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/1538, as amended by S.I. 1988/627.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1986/2049, as amended by S.I. 1987/1538 and S.I. 1992/1580.

[^f00005]: Regulation 9(2)(b) of S.I. 1987/1538 substituted the paragraph 1(B)(c)(ii) of column 2 that is amended by these Regulations.