SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12 Consequential Amendments

The Weights and Measures &c. Act 1976

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In Schedule 6 to the Weights and Measures &c. Act 1976, for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following—

Weights and Measures Act 1985

5

1

This paragraph applies where the relevant requirement took effect under or by virtue of the 1985 Act.

2

The following provisions of that Act—

a

sections 25 to 31 (offences),

b

sections 32 to 37 (liability of third parties and defences),

c

sections 38 to 42 and 44 to 46 (powers of inspectors, etc.), and

d

sections 79 to 83 (further powers of inspectors and prosecution of offences),

shall apply as if the substituted requirement were imposed under Part IV of the Act.