Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  These regulations may be cited as the Measurements of Cereals for Import and Export Purposes Regulations 1975 and shall come into operation on 19th May 1975.

2.—(1) In these regulations,—

“Community” means the European Economic Community;

“the Community provisions” means Council Directive No. 71/347/EEC(1) on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to the measuring of the standard mass per storage volume of grain, as amended(2), and any instrument replacing, supplementing or further amending that directive.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889shall apply to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Unit of measurement of standard mass per storage volume for use in intra-Community trade in cereals

3.  It is hereby declared that the unit of measurement of the characteristic of standard mass per storage volume for the purposes of the import and export trades in cereals between the United Kingdom and other Member States of the Community shall be the EEC standard mass per storage volume as defined in the Community provisions, and any expression of that characteristic in other terms shall have no effect.

(1)

OJ/SE 1971 (III), p. 852.

(2)

Cmnd. 5179-I, p. 181.