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Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…
Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…
Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…
You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…
Resources for business.
Explanations of the different terms you might see on your driving licence
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Now the National Measurement Office.
Information for businesses.
Local authority technical guidance for standards used in weights and measures.
Documents that contain technical opinions from the Office for Product Safety and Standards on weights and measures equipment.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Listings of numbers for identifying items of weighing or measuring equipment.
A guide about the various categories and weight classes for lorries.
How to work out the weight of plastic packaging components and each material used to make them, to check if you must register for Plastic Packaging Tax and include them on your return.
Local Weights and Measures Authority reports and returns on enforcement work over a 12 month period.
Maximum weights for different heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) depending on the vehicle type and number of axles.
OPSS publishes the 2022-23 Section 70 Weights and Measures report as Official Statistics.
Report you’ve changed a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or trailer chassis, weight, tyres or brakes (a ‘notifiable alteration’) or change the weight you can carry.
Definitions, vehicle classes, reasons to refuse to test a vehicle, narrow track vehicles, historic vehicles and inspection procedures for car and passenger vehicle MOT tests.
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