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2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, these Regulations shall apply to all measuring equipment for use for trade in the making of any measurement of liquid fuel in a quantity not exceeding 20 gallons if it is constructed to measure in imperial units, or 100 L if it is constructed to measure in metric units, other than equipment for use for trade in the making of any measurement of liquefied petroleum gas [F1and liquefied natural gas]; and measuring equipment to which these Regulations apply is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 11(1) of the Act.
(2) Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to any measuring equipment for use for the measurement by capacity of liquid fuel in a quantity not exceeding 100 L which, in accordance with a programme of automatic control and without the intervention of an operator during the measuring process, measures quantities of those products to a constant nominal capacity, the quantities being kept separate.
(3) On [F2and after] 1st October 1995, in paragraph (1) above, the words “20 gallons if it is constructed to measure in imperial units, or” and “if it is constructed to measure in metric units,” shall be omitted.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (12.10.1998) by The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2218), regs. 1, 3(2)
F2Words in reg. 2(3) inserted (12.10.1998) by The Measuring Equipment (Liquid Fuel and Lubricants) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/2218), regs. 1, 3(3)
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