Weights and Measures Act 1985

Acts passed before 31st July 1963

5 In any Act passed before 31st July 1963—

(a) any reference to local authorities for the purposes of the Weights and Measures Acts 1878 to 1936 shall continue to be construed as a reference to local weights and measures authorities, and

(b) any reference to an inspector of weights and measures shall continue to be construed as a reference to an inspector within the meaning of this Act.

6 Any local Act passed before 31st July 1963 shall continue to be construed—

(a) as not making unlawful the use for trade, as equipment to which section 11 of this Act applies, of any article of which such use is not unlawful under that section, and

(b) as not requiring any such article to be stamped otherwise than as required by that section.

7 Where an enactment contained in any local Act passed before 31st July 1963 appears to the Secretary of State to have been superseded by, or to be inconsistent with, any of the provisions of the 1963 Act re-enacted in this Act, or any instrument made under those provisions, the Secretary of State may by order, a draft of which shall be laid before Parliament, specify that enactment for the purposes of this paragraph and, without prejudice to the operation in the meantime of any rule of law relating to the effect on any such enactment of any such provision, any enactment specified in the order shall be repealed as from the date of the making of the order.