Western Australia Metric Conversion Act 1972 | | |Reprinted under | | | |the Reprints Act | | | |1984 as | | | |at 4 September | | | |2009 | Western Australia Metric Conversion Act 1972 CONTENTS 1. Short title 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Terms used 1 5. Amendments to Acts may be made by proclamations 2 6. Amendments of statutory instruments 3 7. Power to amend subsidiary legislation 4 Notes Compilation table 5 Defined Terms | |[pic] |Reprinted under | | | |the Reprints Act | | | |1984 as | | | |at 4 September | | | |2009 | 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 by 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. (2) A proclamation may be so made under subsection (1) as to - (a) take effect on such day or days as are specified therein, not being a day or days earlier than the day on which the proclamation is published in the Government Gazette; and (b) alter the physical quantity in the reference amended by the proclamation, but so that the physical quantity substituted by the proclamation - (i) is not less by more than 10% than; and (ii) does not exceed by more than 10%, the physical quantity amended by the proclamation. (3) The Minister administering an Act affected by a proclamation made under this section shall cause a copy of the proclamation to be laid on the Table of each House of Parliament within the first 6 sitting days of the House after the publication of the proclamation in the Government Gazette. (4) If either House of Parliament passes a resolution of which notice has been given within the first 14 sitting days of that House after the copy of a proclamation made under this section has been laid on the table of that House, that the proclamation be disallowed, the proclamation thereupon ceases to have effect, but the disallowance of the proclamation does not affect or invalidate anything done, or omitted to be done, in good faith before the passing of the resolution. 6. Amendments of statutory instruments (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act or law, the Minister administering an Act under which a statutory instrument has been promulgated, made, given or published may, with the approval of the Governor, by notice published in the Government Gazette amend any reference in the statutory instrument 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. (2) The provisions of section 5(2), (3) and (4) apply to a notice published under this section as though it were a proclamation made under section 5. 7. Power to amend subsidiary legislation (1) The Governor, on the recommendation of the Minister, may make regulations amending any subsidiary legislation made under any Act. (2) The Minister may make a recommendation under subsection (1) only if the Minister considers that each amendment proposed to be made by the regulations is solely for the purpose of amending a reference in the subsidiary legislation 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. (3) The quantity to be substituted need not be the exact metric equivalent of the quantity being replaced but must not be more than 10% greater or less than the quantity being replaced. [Section 7 inserted by No. 8 of 2009 s. 91.] [First to Fourth Schedules omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e) 4.] [pic] Notes 1 This reprint is a compilation as at 11 September 2009 of the Metric Conversion Act 1972 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint. Compilation table |Short title |Number |Assent |Commencement | | |and year| | | |Metric Conversion|94 of |4 Dec 19|4 Dec 1972 (see s. | |Act 1972 |1972 |72 |2) | |Metric Conversion|19 of |6 Jun 19|s. 1-4: 6 Jun 1973 | |Act Amendment Act|1973 |73 |Amendment effected | |1973 | | |by Second Schedule | | | | |to Metric | | | | |Conversion Act 1972| | | | |by Act No. 19 of | | | | |1973 took effect | | | | |11 Jan 1974 (see | | | | |Gazette 4 Jan 1974 | | | | |p. 52) | |Metric Conversion|83 of |21 Dec 1|21 Dec 1973 | |Act Amendment Act|1973 |973 | | |(No. 2) 1973 | | | | |Metric Conversion|42 of |11 Sep |11 Sep 1975 | |Act Amendment Act|1975 |1975 | | |1975 | | | | |Local Government |14 of |28 Jun 1|1 Jul 1996 (see | |(Consequential |1996 |996 |s. 2) | |Amendments) | | | | |Act 1996 s. 4 | | | | |Statutes (Repeals|8 of |21 May 2|22 May 2009 (see | |and Miscellaneous|2009 |009 |s. 2(b)) | |Amendments) | | | | |Act 2009 s. 91 | | | | |Reprint 1: The Metric Conversion Act 1972 as at 11 | |Sep 2009 (includes amendments listed above) | 2 The provisions in this Act amending these Acts have been omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e). 3 Metric Conversion Act 1970 (Cwlth) repealed by Weights and Measures (National Standards) Amendment Act 1984 (No. 77 of 1984). 4 The First to Fourth Schedules set out the amendments to be effected by section 4. As those amendments have been made, the Schedules are spent and are omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e). Defined Terms [This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.] Defined Term Provision(s) metric system of measurement 3 statutory instrument 3