The Food Safety (Amendment) (Metrication) Regulations 1992

Amendment of Skimmed Milk with Non-Milk Fat Regulations

2.  The Skimmed Milk with Non-Milk Fat Regulations 1960(1) and the Skimmed Milk with Non-Milk Fat (Scotland) Regulations 1960(2) shall be amended—

(a)by substituting in Part II of the Second Schedule to each of those Regulations for the words “grammes”, “milligrammes” and “microgrammes”, wherever they occur therein, the words “grams”, “milligrams” and “micrograms” respectively; and

(b)by adding after paragraph 8 in Part II of the Second Schedule to each of those Regulations the following paragraph—

9.(1) Provided that the supplementary indications comprised partly of imperial units of measurement referred to in this Part of this Schedule shall not be used for the purposes of determining the constituent contents of the specified foods to which they relate after 31st December 1994.

(2) In paragraph (1) above “supplementary indications” has the same meaning as in Council Directive 80/181/EEC, as amended by Council Directive 89/617/EEC, laying down common standards for units of measurement..

(1)

S.I. 1960/2331; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1976/103 and 1981/1174.

(2)

S.I. 1960/2437; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1976/294 and 1981/1319.