UK Statutory Instrument
1986
United Kingdom
The Measuring Equipment (Measures of Length) Regulations 1986
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Application
Subject to Regulation 5 below, every measure of length shall...
Every measure of length shall be sufficiently strong and resistant...
Where an end measure or composite measure is made of...
The terminal surfaces of end measures and of composite measures...
Every rigid measure of length, including folding measures, shall be...
Every flexible measure of length shall be constructed so that...
Winding devices for flexible measures of length shall be constructed...
Where a measure of length is marked with a reference...
Where a measure of length is marked with a tractive...
(1) Every measure of length which is graduated shall be...
Where the scale marks on a measure of length are...
The numbering of graduated measures of length shall be—
Where a graduated measure of length is a folding measure,...
Every measure of length shall be conspicuously, legibly and durably...
Any measure of length marked in accordance with regulation 17...
Every measure of length which is not graduated or subdivided...
(1) Every measure of length may be marked (in the...
No person shall use a measure of length for trade...
Every measure of length submitted for testing shall be in...
Every measure of length shall be tested by comparison with...
The inspector shall test the nominal length and, in the...
Statistical Sampling
Measures of Length imported from a member State or an EEA State
The prescribed limits of error relating to measures of length...
(1) Save in the case of measures of length imported...
(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, measures of...
The stamp shall be obliterated on any measure of length...
(1) An inspector shall obliterate the stamp on any measure...
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