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The Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1990

UK Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 2626 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
20 December 1990
In force from
21 January 1991
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
Weights and Measures Act 1985

Explanatory note

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

These Regulations revoke and replace the Weights and Measures (Local and Working Standard Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1987. They prescribe the methods of testing and adjusting, and the limits of error for, working standard capacity measures and testing equipment used for measuring by inspectors of weights and measures. They also make provision for limits of error for local standard capacity measures and for the periods of validity of certificates of fitness of these local standards. The Regulations make the following changes of substance: a separate testing requirements for working standard capacity measures made of glass and of metal (including proving tanks and proving tanks for water) are specified (regulation 3(1) and (2)); b testing requirements and limits of error are introduced for reference meters for water, differential pressure gauges and piston provers (regulations 8, 9, 17 and 18 and Schedule 2); and c limits of error are provided for working and local standard proving tanks for water (regulations 19 and 20 and Schedules 3 and 4). Copies of British Standards (see regulation 3(1)) can be obtained from any of the sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution (BSI) or by post from the BSI at Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.

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