Weights and Measures Act 1985

56 General duties of Unit

(1) It shall be the duty of the Unit—

(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 Unit considers appropriate;

(b) to make available, to local weights and measures authorities and to packers and importers of packages, such information as the Unit 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 Unit 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 Unit to have functions which correspond to those of the Unit 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 Unit and the authority ;

(e) to give advice to the Secretary of State about such documents as are mentioned in section 49(3)(b) above which are prepared by persons appearing to the Secretary of State to represent the interests of packers or importers of packages;

(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) to perform any duty conferred on the Unit by paragraphs (a) to (g) above in accordance with any directions given to the Unit by the Secretary of State.

(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 [S.I. 1977/932.] Measuring Container Bottles (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1977.