The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2009

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 3045

Weights And Measures

The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2009

Made

16th November 2009

Laid before Parliament

19th November 2009

Coming into force

1st January 2010

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 15(1) and 94(1) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 M1 , makes the following Regulations:

Marginal Citations

M1 1985 c.72.

Citation and commencement E+W+S

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 1st January 2010.

Interpretation E+W+S

2.  In these Regulations, “ the 2001 Regulations” means the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 2001 M2 .

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M2 2001/1208, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

Removal of time limit on the use of supplementary indications E+W+S

3.—(1) In each of the provisions listed in paragraph (2), omit “up to and including 31stDecember 2009”.

(2) Those provisions are—

(a) regulations 11A and 16A of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel delivered from Road Tankers) Regulations 1983 M3 ;

(b) regulation 7A of the Measuring Equipment (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1983 M4 ;

(c) regulation 12A of the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 1986 M5 ;

(d) regulation 17A of the Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986 M6 ;

F1 (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(f) regulation 16(7)(b) of the Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1995 M7 ;

(g) regulation 8(4) of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations 1995 M8 ;

(h) regulation 6A of the Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000 M9 ;

(i) regulation 18 of the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000 M10 ;

(j) regulation 8(2) of the 2001 Regulations; and

(k) regulation 7 of the Weighing Equipment (Automatic Catchweighing Instruments) Regulations 2003 M11 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 3(2)(e) revoked (25.3.2015) by The Weights and Measures (Revocations) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/356), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. para. 1 Table 1

Marginal Citations

M3 1983/1390; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1994/1851 and 2001/85.

M4 1983/1656; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1994/1851 and 2001/85.

M5 1986/1320; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/1851 and 2001/85.

M6 1986/1682; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1994/1851 and 2001/85.

M7 S.I. 1995/735, amended by S.I. 2001/85; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

M8 S.I. 1995/1014, amended by S.I. 2001/85; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

M9 S.I.2000/388, amended by S.I. 2001/85; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

M10 S.I.2000/932, amended by S.I. 2001/85; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

M11 S.I. 2003/2761, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

Partial revocation of the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001 E+W+S

4.  Regulations 2 and 3(1) of the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001 M12 are revoked.

Marginal Citations

M12 S.I. 2001/85, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

Modification of the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 1983 E+W+S

5.  Regulation 12A of the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 1983 M13 , so far as remaining in force by virtue of regulation 1(3) of the 2001 Regulations, is to be read as if the words “up to and including 31st December 2009” were omitted.

Marginal Citations

M13 S.I.1983/914, revoked subject to relevant savings by S.1. 2001/1208.

Drayson

Minister of State for Science and Innovation,

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations implement in part the amendments made by Directive 2009/3/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (OJ L114, 7.5.2009, p 10) to Council Directive 80/181/EEC (OJ L39, 15.2.1980, p 40), which relates to the use of units of measurement.

Regulation 3 removes the time limit on the use of supplementary indications of quantity expressed in imperial units of measurement (31 December 2009) which is provided for in the regulations there listed. The use of supplementary indications is, therefore, permitted indefinitely.

In consequence of provision in regulation 3, regulation 4 partially revokes the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 2001, which inserted the 31 December 2009 time limit in question.

Regulation 5 modifies the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations 1983 so that, where they continue to apply to beltweighers passed as fit for use for trade prior to 28^th September 2001, they are read as if the 31 December 2009 time limit were omitted.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.