PART IIQUANTITY MARKING OF CONTAINERS AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT TO BE USED IN MARKING

Amendment of the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 1986

9.—(1) Regulation 10 of the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 1986 shall be amended as follows:—

(a)subject to paragraph (2) below, in paragraph (1)—

(i)for “Paragraphs (2) to (7) of this Regulation have” there shall be substituted “This regulation has”; and

(ii)the words “and the manner in which the statement is to be marked” shall be deleted;

(b)in paragraph (2)(a) for “the Weights and Measures (Marking of Goods and Abbreviations of Units) Regulations 1975” there shall be substituted “the Weights and Measures (Quantity Marking and Abbreviations of Units) Regulations 1987”; and

(c)subject to paragraph (2) below, paragraphs (7) and (8) shall be deleted.

(2) In the case of packages containing poultry, but not including part only of any poultry:

(a)paragraph (1)(c) above shall not apply; and

(b)for paragraph 1(B)(c)(ii) of Part I of Schedule 3 to the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 1986 there shall be substituted “for Regulation 10(7) there were substituted the words “In the case of packages other than packages marked with the EEC mark the principal Regulations shall apply as if Regulations 3(3) and (4), 5 and 7(3) to (7) and Schedule 1 were omitted and as if in Regulation 6(1) for the words “metric units” onwards there were substituted “imperial or metric units or in both imperial and metric units””.”