The Weights and Measures (Quantity Marking and Abbreviations of Units) Regulations 1987

Size of marking

5.—(1) Subject to regulation 2(2) above, where in any marking of any container the quantity by number or the numerical value of a unit of measurement is expressed in figures, all the relevant figures shall be at least the height specified in the second column of the Table set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations in relation to—

(a) where the marking is of mass or weight, capacity or volume, the range of quantity specified in the first column of that Table, appropriate to the measurement being marked, within which the quantity of goods made up in or on that container falls, (or where the goods are made up in an imperial quantity, within which the metric equivalent of that quantity falls); or

(b) where the marking is of area, length or number, the range of size of container so specified within which the size of the container in or on which the goods are made up falls, being a size calculated in accordance with the provisions of that Schedule.

(2) Where, pursuant to regulation 7(3) below, the words “metric pack” are included in any marking, those words shall appear in capital letters of at least the height referred to in paragraph (1) above.

(3) The numerator and denominator together indicating a vulgar fraction of a unit of measurement shall appear one on top of the other and for the purposes of paragraph (1) above shall be treated as a single figure.