Weights and Measures Act 1985

56 General duties of [F1 Secretary of State]. E+W+S

(1) It shall be the duty of the [F1 Secretary of State]—

(a) to keep under review the operation of this Part of this Act and to carry out such research in connection with the review as the [F1 Secretary of State]considers appropriate;

(b) to make available, to local weights and measures authorities and to packers and importers of packages, such information as the [F1 Secretary of State] considers appropriate in connection with the operation of this Part of this Act;

(c) to give advice to local weights and measures authorities—

(i) about arrangements to be made by them for the purpose of enforcing this Part of this Act within their area; and

(ii) about such other matters as the [F1 Secretary of State]considers appropriate in connection with the operation of this Part of this Act;

(d) to seek to collaborate, with any authority in a place outside Great Britain appearing to the [F1 Secretary of State]to have functions which correspond to those of the [F1 Secretary of State]or to those conferred on a local weights and measures authority by this Part of this Act, about matters which are connected with packages and are of interest to the [F1 Secretary of State]and the authority;

(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(f) to make and maintain a record of the names and addresses of packers and importers of packages and of—

(i) the kinds of packages which they make up or import, and

(ii) the marks of which particulars have been furnished by them in pursuance of section 57 below;

(g) to make and maintain a record of the names and addresses of persons who make measuring container bottles in any member State of the Economic Community and of the marks put on the bottles for the purpose of enabling the makers of them to be identified;

(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(2) In this section—

• “measuring container bottle” has the same meaning as in the 1977 Regulations or, if regulations so provide, such other meaning as is prescribed, and

• “the 1977 Regulations” means the M1 Measuring Container Bottles (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1977.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by S.I. 1987/2187, art. 2(b), Sch. para. 2(b)

F2 S. 56(1) paras. (e) and (h) repealed by S.I. 1987/2187, art. 2(b), Sch. para. 2(a)

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1977/932.