1Metric Conversion Act 1972

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Metric Conversion Act 1972

Western Australia

Metric Conversion Act 1972

Contents

1. Short title 1

2. Commencement 1

3. Terms used 1

4. Amendments to Acts may be made by proclamations 2

5. Amendments of statutory instruments 3

6. Power to amend subsidiary legislation 3

Notes

Compilation table 5

Defined terms

Western Australia

Metric Conversion Act 1972

An Act to facilitate the use of the metric system of measurement by amending certain references to physical quantities in certain Acts 2; to authorise the amendment, by proclamation or notice of other such references in Acts and other statutory instruments; and for incidental and other purposes.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Metric Conversion Act 1972 1.

2. Commencement

Subject to section 4(2), this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent 1.

3. Terms used

In this Act unless the contrary intention appears —

metric system of measurement means measurement in terms of —

(a) the units comprised in the International System of Units for the time being approved by the General Conference on Weights and Measures;

(b) units decimally related to those units and for the time being so approved;

(c) such other units as are declared from time to time pursuant to the Metric Conversion Act 1970 of the Commonwealth 3, as amended from time to time, or pursuant to any Act of the Commonwealth in substitution for that Act, to be within the metric system;

statutory instrument means —

(a) any proclamation or Order in Council;

(b) any regulation, rule, local law, by‑law, notice, order or other instrument promulgated, made, given or published under or for the purposes of any Act.

[Section 3 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]

[4. Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]

5. Amendments to Acts may be made by proclamations

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act or law, but subject to subsection (2), the Governor may by proclamation, in any case where he is of opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do for giving proper effect to the purposes for which an Act was enacted, amend any reference in the Act to a physical quantity that is not expressed in terms of a unit or units in the metric system of measurement by substituting for that reference a reference to a physical quantity expressed in terms of a unit or units in the metric system of measurement.