1987 Ed.]
Metrication
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CHAPTER 214
METRICATION
To provide for the replacement in enactments of non-metric units by metric units and for matters connected therewith.
Originally 48 of 1976.
L.N. 189/87.
IN 5479
[9 July 1976.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Metrication Ordinance.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "International System of Units" means the system of units of measurement from time to time recommended for international use by the General Conference of Weights and Measures; "metric units" means-
(a) the base units, supplementary units, derived units and symbols of the International System of Units specified in the second and third columns of Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule and defined, in the case of the base units and supplementary units, in the fourth column of the said Part I or II, as the case may be, opposite each such unit;
(b) any other units of measurement belonging to the International System of Units;
(c) such decimal multiples and sub-multiples of the metric units referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) as may be formed by the use of the prefixes of the International System of Units specified in the second and third columns of Part IV of the First Schedule and determined, in respect of any particular decimal multiple or sub-multiple of a metric unit by reference to the factor, specified in the first column of that Part, by which such metric unit is multiplied;
(d) the units of measurement in general international use, but not belonging to the International System of Units, which are specified in the second column of the Second Schedule, the respective equivalent values whereof, expressed in SI units, being specified or referred to in the fourth column of that Schedule;
"non-metric units" means all units of measurement other than metric units.
(2) In this and in any other Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) the abbreviation SI stands for the International System of Units; and
Short title.
Interpretation.
First Schedule.
Second Schedule.