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Introductory Text
1.Citation, commencement, revocation and extent
2.Interpretation
3.Scope of application
4.Duty to comply with the three packers' rules
5.Duty of packers and importers to mark packages
6.Duty of packers and importers to mark outer containers
7.Liability for labelling packages and outer containers
8.Specific requirements as to quantity marking
9.Packers' and importers' duties as to equipment, checks and documentation
10.Enforcement by local weights and measures authority
11.Notices to local weights and measures authorities
12.Instructions by inspectors
13.Offences relating to the making up and marking of packages and outer containers, and record keeping
14.Offences relating to the sale of packages
15.Offences relating to E-marks
16.Disclosure of information
17.Corporate offence provisions
18.Penalties for offences
19.Defences
20.Trade Descriptions Act
21.Transitional provisions
Signature
SCHEDULE 1
Part 1— Repeals and revocations
Part 2— Minor and Consequential Amendments
Weights and Measures Act 1985 (c. 72)
The Weights and Measures (Quantity Marking and Abbreviations of Units) Regulations 1987, S.I. 1987/1538
The Capacity Serving Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Regulations 1988, S.I. 1988/120
The Weights and Measures (Miscellaneous Foods) Order 1988, S.I. 1988/2040
The Measuring Equipment (Capacity Measures and Testing Equipment) Regulations 1995, S.I. 1995/735
The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000, S.I. 2000/388
The Weighing Equipment (Non-Automatic Weighing Machines) Regulations 2000, S.I. 2000/932
Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (2001 c. 16)
SCHEDULE 2
The reference test
1.REQUIREMENTS FOR MEASURING THE ACTUAL CONTENTS OF PACKAGES
2.REQUIREMENTS FOR CHECKING BATCHES OF PACKAGES (2) The checking of...
3.CHECKING OF THE ACTUAL CONTENTS OF A PACKAGE
4.CHECKING OF AVERAGE ACTUAL VOLUME OF THE CONTENTS OF THE...
SCHEDULE 3
Tolerable negative error
SCHEDULE 4
The E-Mark
SCHEDULE 5
Application to bread
1.References to the packer shall be treated as referring to...
2.References to the making up or the packing of a...
3.References to the nominal quantity of a package shall be...
4.In their application to bread which is sold unwrapped—
5.Regulation 3(5) shall not apply.
6.The following provisions of regulations 5 and 6 shall not...
7.Regulations 5 and 6 shall not apply to bread which...
8.Regulations 8 and 11 shall not apply.
9.Regulation 9(1)(b)(ii) (duty to keep records) does not apply to...
10.In Regulation 19(1), for the words “which was not marked...
11.Where bread is not made up by means of a...
12.In Schedule 7— (a) paragraph 5 shall not apply; and...
13.Where bread is supplied part-baked to a retailer who completes...
14.Transitional provision
SCHEDULE 6
SCHEDULE 7
Powers of inspectors and local weights and measures authorities
1.Powers of entry and inspection
2.If a justice of the peace, on sworn information in...
3.(1) An inspector entering any premises by virtue of paragraph...
4.Power of seizure
5.Power to require information
6.Purchase of goods
7.Failure to provide assistance or information
Explanatory Note