Weights and Measures Act 1985

Byelaws E+W+S

23 E+W+S Any byelaws made by a local authority for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph 9 of Schedule 5 to this Act which immediately before the commencement of this Act were in force by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the 1963 Act shall notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of that sub-paragraph continue in force by virtue of this paragraph; and any authority which immediately before the commencement of this Act had power to revoke any such byelaws to any extent shall continue to have that power.

24 E+W+S Any provision contained in a byelaw made under paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the 1963 Act (including that paragraph as extended to wood fuel by paragraph 4 of Part IV of Schedule 7 to that Act) which—

(a) immediately before 17th July 1978 (the date of the commencement of section 31(3) of the M1 Criminal Law Act 1977 and section 289C(3) of the M2 Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975) specified £20 as the maximum fine which might be imposed on summary conviction in respect of a contravention of, or an offence under, any byelaw mentioned in that provision, and

(b) immediately before the commencement of this Act had effect by virtue of either of those sections as if it specified £50 instead,

shall continue to have effect as if it specified £50.

Marginal Citations

M1 1977 c. 45.

M2 1975 c. 21.

[F1 25 E+W+S In any of the following, namely—

(a) any byelaw made under paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the 1963 Act (including that paragraph as extended to wood fuel by paragraph 4 of Part IV of Schedule 7 to that Act),

(b) any byelaw made under paragraph 2 of Part IV of Schedule 7 to that Act, and

(c) any byelaw made under any enactment repealed by that Act, where the byelaw is continued in force by virtue of paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 6 to that Act, references to a ton, half a ton, two hundredweights, a hundredweight, a quarter or a stone (or to the equivalent number of pounds in the case of each of those quantities) shall be construed as references to 1000, 500, 100, 50, 15 or 7.5 kilograms respectively]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 11 para. 25 substituted (1.10.1995) by S.I. 1994/2867, reg. 6(7)(a)

[F2 26 E+W+S Where any byelaw to which paragraph 25 above applies contains a requirement not only to mark a price clearly and legibly but to mark it in figures of at least three inches in height, the reference to three inches shall be construed as a reference to 7.5 centimetres.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 11 para. 26 added (1.10.1995) by S.I. 1994/2867, reg. 6(7)(b)