S.I. No. 200/1975 - European Communities (Weights and Measures of Length) Regulations, 1975.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Weights and Measures of Length) Regulations, 1975.

2. Words and expressions used in Council Directive No. 73/362/EEC

1

and Council Directive No. 74/148/EEC

2

have, when used in these Regulations, the same meanings that they have in those Directives.

1

OJ No. L 335, 5.12.73 p.56.

2

OJ No. L 84, 28.3.74 p.3.

3. Nothing in the Weights and Measures Acts, 1878 to 1961, or any instrument made thereunder shall prohibit, prevent or restrict, or authorise or empower the prohibition, prevention or restriction of or the refusal to authorise or permit, the placing on the market or entry into service of—

(

a

) material measures of length to which Council Directive No. 73/362/EEC applies and which bear the EEC pattern approval symbol and the EEC initial verification mark, or

(

b

) weights to which Council Directive No. 74/148/EEC applies which bear the EEC initial verification mark.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 25th day of August, 1975.

JUSTIN KEATING,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These regulations are made to give effect, so far as necessary, to Council Directives No. 73/362/EEC on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to material measures of length and No. 74/148/EEC on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to weights of from 1 mg to 50 kg of above medium accuracy.

S.I. No. 200 of 1975.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WEIGHTS AND MEASURES OF LENGTH) REGULATIONS, 1975.

I, JUSTIN KEATING, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 2

of the

European Communities Act, 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), hereby make the following regulations