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5.—(1) On the coming into force of these Regulations the Act shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 8 for subsection (5) there shall be substituted the following—
“(5) The proceding provisions have effect subject to—
(a)subsection (5A) below, and
(b)sections 9 and 89 below.
(5A) Nothing in this section precludes the use for trade of any supplementary indication; and for this purpose any indication of quantity (“the imperial indication”) is a supplementary indication if—
(a)it is expressed in a unit of measurement other than a metric unit,
(b)it accompanies an indication of quantity expressed in a metric unit (“the metric indication”) and is not itself authorised for use in the circumstances as a primary indication of quantity, and
(c)the metric indication is the more prominent, the imperial indication being, in particular, expressed in characters no larger than those of the metric indication.”.
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