The Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988

UK Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 2040 — creates 2 criminal offences.

Made

16 November 1988

In force from

1 January 1989

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales

Made under

State pursuant to section 86(2) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order consolidates and amends the Weights and Measures Act 1963 (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1984 as amended. The principal changes introduced by this Order are as follows:— a in article 4, to permit the weights of non-retail pre-packed chocolate products weighing 10kg or more to be marked on an accompanying document instead of the packaging, and to permit the weights of non-retail pre-packed solid and paste coffee and chicory products shown in an accompanying document to be in metric units only; b in article 9(1), pre-packed liquid coffee and chicory products in quantities of less than 5ml are exempted from quantity marking; c in article 16(3)(a), to make clear that the prescribed quantities in which bread has to be made up do not also apply to bun loaves, fruit loaves, malt loaves and fruited malt loaves; and d in Schedule 1, to prescribe a new range for tea (other than tea bags), and to exempt from quantity marking all pre-packed foods in quantities of less than 5g or 5ml previously required to be quantity marked below those values.

Offences created by this instrument

• Potatoes article 13(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Potatoes article 13(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

• Weights And Measures Commons · Commons Chamber · 11 October 1988

  That the draft Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988, which was laid before this House on 26th October, be approved.

• Statutory Instruments, &C Commons · Commons Chamber · 1 November 1988

  Ordered. That the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment No. 4 Order 1988 (S.I., 1988, No. 1881) be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c. That the draft Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988 be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c. That the draft Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988 be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c. That the draft Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Order 1988 be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments, &c. That the draft…

• Weights And Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Order 1988 Weights And Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988 Lords · Lords Chamber · 14 November 1988

  Moved, That the Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Order 1988 and the Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988 laid before the House on 26th October be approved [36th Report from the Joint Committee].—(Lord Strathclyde.)

• Weights And Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Order 1988 Weights And Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988 Lords · Lords Chamber · 14 November 1988
• Weights and Measures (Specified Quantities) (Unwrapped Bread and Intoxicating Liquor) Order 2011 Lords · Grand Committee · 7 September 2011 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Baroness Wilcox)

  My Lords, the order amends the specified quantities which apply to non-prepackaged alcoholic drinks and unwrapped bread. The legislation that is amended by this order comprises Part 4 of Schedule 3 to the Weights and Measures Act 1985, the Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988, the Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Order 1988 and the Measuring Instruments (Capacity Serving Measures) Regulations 2006. The order does two things: it removes all restrictions on the sizes of unwrapped loaves and it allows greater flexibility over the sizes available for the sale of…

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• Other instruments from 1988