The Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/1851
• Sections: 12

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Weights and Measures (Metrication Amendments) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force immediately after the coming into force of the Units of Measurement Regulations 1994 .

Section 2

(1) On the coming into force of these Regulations, the Regulations specified in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations shall be amended in the manner specified in that Part.

(2) On 1st October 1995, the Regulations specified in Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations, as amended by paragraph (1) above, shall be amended in the manner specified in that Part.

(3) On 1st January 2000, the Regulations specified in Part III of the Schedule to these Regulations, as amended by paragraphs (1) and (2) above, shall be amended in the manner specified in that Part.

Section 7A

Where its nominal quantity is indicated on measuring equipment in metric units of measurement it may be indicated also by means of a supplementary indication.

Section 7A

Any indication on measuring equipment referring in metric units of measurement to the quantity of liquid fuel delivered may be accompanied by a supplementary indication.

Section 11A

Any sales indicator reading on a contents gauging system reading in litres may also indicate quantity by means of a supplementary indication.”.

Section 12A

Where any of the following indicate quantity by means of a metric unit of measurement—

(a) any marking required by regulation 11(1)(b) or (c);

(b) any totalisation indicating device;

they may also indicate quantity by means of a supplementary indication.

Section 12A

Where either the indication of the exact quantity of material a filling machine purports to weigh or the visual indication of the weight of individual quantities of materials weighed by a discontinuous totaliser is given in metric units of measurement that indication may also be given by means of a supplementary indication.

Section 16A

Any sales indicator reading on a meter measuring system reading in litres may also indicate quantity by means of a supplementary indication.

Section 16A

Where a weight indicating device of a non-automatic weighing machine indicates the weight of a load in metric units of measurement that indication may also be given by means of a supplementary indication.

Section 17A

Any measure of length marked in accordance with regulation 17 of these Regulations may, if only one graduated side is marked in metric units of measurement, have its other side marked with supplementary indications provided that the zero indications of the scale marked in metric units of measurement and of the scale marked in supplementary indications both lie in the same plane perpendicular to its length.

Section 18

Where a non-automatic weighing machine shows price expressed as an amount of money per unit of weight, such unit of weight shall be expressed per hundred grams, per kilogram or per tonne.

Section 24

The prescribed limits of error relating to measures of length shall be 0.6 millimetre plus 0.4 millimetre per metre (rounded up to the next whole metre) of nominal length.