WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENTS ACT, 1878.

HC Deb 17 April 1893 vol 11 c430

MR. BIRKMYRE (Ayr, &c.)

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether the provision in Clause 45 of the Weights and Measurements Act of 1878, by which weights stamped in any part of the United Kingdom may be used in any other part of the Kingdom, could be applied to weighing instruments which at present must be stamped in the district in which they are used?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. MUNDELLA,) Sheffield, Brightside

No, Sir; weighing machines, although stamped in the district of one Local Authority, may, under existing law, have to be re-stamped if fixed for use in trade in the district of another Local Authority.

MR. BIRKMYRE

Can no remedy be applied?

MR. MUNDELLA

None except by registration.