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First Schedule.

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of length and the kilogram shall be the unit of measurement

of mass or weight by reference to which any measurement

involving a measurement of length, or mass or weight, as

the case may be, shall be made in Hong Kong.

(2) The First Schedule shall have effect for

defining, for the purposes of measurements to be made in

Hong Kong, the units of measurement specified in that

Schedule; and for the purposes of any measurement of weight

to be so made, the weight of any thing may be expressed, by

reference to the units of measurement set out in Part V of

that Schedule, in the same

in the same terms as its mass.

Second Schedule.

(3) The units of measurement and the permitted

symbols or abbreviations of the units of measurement

specified in the Second Schedule shall be lawful for use

for trade in Hong Kong.

Third Schedule.

(4)

The weights and measures specified in the Third

Schedule shall be lawful for use for trade in Hong Kong.

Declaration

of equivalent units of

measurements.

7. The Commissioner of Customs and Excise may,

for the purposes of this Ordinance, determine and

declare by order in the Gazette the equivalent of any unit

of measurement expressed in any other unit of the same

quantity, and any equivalent so declared shall be deemed to

be the equivalent of the unit of measurement in question.