Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 71

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

1st March 2002

Coming into operation

8th April 2002

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13(1) of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(1) and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 8th April 2002.

Amendments of Regulations

2.—(1) On the coming into operation of these Regulations, the Regulations specified in the Schedule shall be amended in the manner specified as follows.

(2) In respect of each of the Regulations listed in the Schedule, after the words “supplementary indication” or “supplementary indications” where those words appear for the first time in each of the regulations specified, there shall be inserted the words “until 31st December 2009”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 1st March 2002.

L.S.

Michael J. Bohill

A senior officer of the

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment

regulation 2

SCHEDULE

1. Regulations 11A and 16A of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel by Road Tanker) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984(3).

2. Regulation 7A of the Measuring Equipment (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984(4).

3. Regulation 13A of the Weighing Equipment (Beltweighers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985(5).

4. Regulation 17A of the Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986(6).

5. Regulation 12A of the Weighing Equipment (Filling and Discontinuous Totalising Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986(7).

6. Regulation 17A of the Weighing Equipment (Non-automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991(8).

7. Regulation 10(7) of the Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(9).

8. Regulation 16(7)(b) of the Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(10).

9. Regulation 6(4) of the Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(11).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations implement in part the amendments made by Directive 1999/103/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (O.J. No. L34, 9.2.2000, p. 17) to Council Directive 80/181/EEC (O.J. No. L39, 15.2.80, p. 40) which relates to the use of units of measurement for economic, public health, public safety or administrative purposes so as to permit the use of non-metric units of measurement as “supplementary indications” until 31st December 2009.

The Regulations amend those Regulations made under the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 on weighing and measuring equipment in use for trade as are specified in the Schedule by inserting the date of 31st December 2009 as the final date for the use of such supplementary indications.

(1)

S.I. 1981/231 (N.I. 10)

(2)

By S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11) Art. 4; see also S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Art. 3(5)

(3)

S.R. 1984 No. 117 as amended by S.R. 1986 No. 307, S.R. 1995 No. 228 and S.R. 1997 No. 220

(4)

S.R. 1984 No. 188 as amended by S.R. 1995 No. 228

(5)

S.R. 1985 No. 319 as amended by S.R. 1995 No. 228

(6)

S.R. 1986 No. 308 as amended by S.R. 1995 No. 228 and S.R. 1999 No. 160