1964_WEIGHTS_AND_MEASURES_ORDINANCE — Page 6

1987 Ed.]

Weights and Measures

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(2) The Commissioner and every authorized officer shall, in the exercise or performance of any function under this Ordinance, comply with any directions given by the Governor under sub-section (1).

PART II

UNITS AND STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENT

6. (1) The metre shall be the unit of measurement 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 terms as its mass.

(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.

(4) The weights and measures specified in the Third Schedule shall be lawful for use for trade in Hong Kong.

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.

8. (1) The Commissioner of Customs and Excise may procure and cause to be maintained reference standards of weights and measures, which shall be the reference standards for the purposes of this Ordinance, from which the accuracy of all other standards of measurement used in Hong Kong is derived; and the value of each reference standard, while it remains in use, shall be determined at such intervals as the Commissioner of Customs and Excise considers appropriate.

(2) The reference standards shall consist of such of the weights and measures specified in the Third Schedule as the Commissioner of Customs and Excise considers proper and sufficient, and a reference standard of any linear, volume or capacity measure may-

(a) be provided either as a separate standard or by means of divisions marked on a standard of larger measure; and

Units of measurement.

First Schedule.

Second Schedule.

Third Schedule.

Declaration of equivalent units of measurements.

Reference standards of weights and measures.

Third Schedule.