Metrology Legislation

Acts

• Packaged Goods (Quantity Control) Act, 1980  Number 11 of 1980
• Metrology Act, 1996 27 of 1996  Number 27 of 1996
• Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act, 1998  Number 34 of 1998 
   

Regulation

Measuring Instruments

• European Communities (Non-automatic Weighing Instruments) Regulations, 1992  S.I. No. 424 of 1992
• European Communities (Non-automatic Weighing Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations, 1994 S.I. No. 447 of 1994
• Legal Metrology (Type Approval) Regulations, 2006 S.I. No. 207 of 2006
• Legal Metrology (European Conformity Assessment of Measuring Instruments) Regulations, 2007 S.I. No. 160 of 2007
• Legal Metrology (Marks) Regulations, 2008  S.I. No. 296 of 2008
• Legal Metrology (General) Regulations, 2008  S.I. No. 323 of 2008
• Legal Metrology (European Conformity Assessment of Measuring Instruments)(Amendment) Regulations, 2010 S.I. No. 543 of 2010

Units of Measurement

• European Communities (Units of Measurement) Regulations 1992  S.I. No. 255 of 1992
• European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations 1998  S.I. No. 510 of 1998
• European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2000  S.I. No. 143 of 2000
• European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2001  S.I. No. 283 of 2001
• European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2002  S.I. No. 619 of 2002
• European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2004  S.I. No. 859 of 2004
• European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2010  S.I. No. 89 of 2010

Packaged Goods

• Packaged Goods (Quantity Control) Regulations, 1981 S.I. No. 39 of 1981
• Guidance Manual for Packers and Importers

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