CAP. 2141
Metrication
[1987 Ed.
Governor may amend
Ordinance by order.
L.N. 5449
Third Schedule.
Amendment of Schedules.
(b) each of the symbols in the third column of the First and Second Schedules stands for the unit or prefix opposite thereto in the second column.
3. (1) The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, amend any Ordinance for the purpose of replacing references therein to non-metric units by references to metric units which are either equivalent or approximate thereto or which enable the references to non-metric units to be expressed in convenient metric terms.
(2) In any order made under subsection (1) the Governor may, for the purposes of the Ordinance amended thereby-
(a) prohibit the use of non-metric units after a date specified in the order;
(b) declare the extent to which, and the period during which, non-metric units may continue to be used;
(c) provide for exemptions from the use of metric units for such periods and on such conditions as he may specify;
(d) generally make such incidental provisions as he thinks expedient to achieve the purposes of this Ordinance.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the non-metric base units set out in the second column of the Third Schedule shall be equivalent to the values expressed in SI base units set out in the third column thereof.
4. The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the First, Second or Third Schedule.
FIRST SCHEDULE
THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS
PART I
NameSymbolQuantityDefinition The SI base units (See Note (1))[s. 2.] metremlengththe length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. kilogramkgmassthe mass equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram kept by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. secondStimethe duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. ampereAelectric currentthat constant current which if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross section, and placed 1 metre apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2x10-7 newton per metre of length.