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The Pottery (Health etc.) (Metrication) Regulations 1982

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Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as The Pottery (Health etc.) (Metrication) Regulations 1982 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1982.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “the principal Regulations” mean the Regulations which are amended by Regulation 2 of these Regulations, that is to say:—

  • The Pottery (Health) Special Regulations 1947;

  • The Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950(1).

Amendments to the principal Regulations to substitute metric measurements for imperial and other measurements

2.  The provisions of the principal Regulations specified in the Schedule to these Regulations in column 1 shall be amended by substituting for the measurements set out opposite thereto in column 3 the measurements set out in the corresponding entry in column 4.

Amendments to the Abstract of Special Regulations (Pottery—Health and Welfare) Order 1973

3.  In Schedules 1 and 2 of the Abstract of Special Regulations (Pottery—Health and Welfare) Order 1973, which reproduce parts of the Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950, there shall be substituted for the measurements set out in the relevant entries in the Schedule to these Regulations in column 3 the measurements set out opposite thereto in column 4.

Application to existing premises and plant or premises and plant under construction

4.  Where any premises or plant in existence or under construction immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations complied with the requirements of the principal Regulations as then in force, those premises or that plant shall be deemed to comply with the principal Regulations as amended by these Regulations.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

David Waddington

Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Employment

25th June 1982

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