Amendment of the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990
8.—(1) Regulation 10 of the Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990 shall be amended as follows:
(a)subject to paragraph (2), for paragraph (1) thereof there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(1) This regulation has effect for the purpose of prescribing—
(a)in relation to a class A package in pursuance of Article 31(5)(a) of the Order; and
(b)in relation to a class B package in pursuance of Article 30(1A)(a) of the Order (as having effect by virtue of the modifications to Part VI of the Order made by paragraph 5(b) of Part II of Schedule 3),
the units of weight or volume in which a statement of quantity is to be marked on the package and, in the case of a class A package, the time before which that statement is to be marked (or a record of a proposed statement is to be kept under Article 31(6) of the Order).”;
(b)in paragraph (2) thereof for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(a)“the principal Regulations” means the Weights and Measures (Quantity Marking and Abbreviations of Units) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999;”;
(c)subject to paragraph (2), paragraph (7) thereof shall be omitted.
(2) Paragraph (1)(c) shall not apply in the case of packages containing poultry, but not including part only of any poultry.