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METRIC CONVERSION ACT 1972 - SECT 7

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 .]




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