Application of national standards of weights and measures
29A Application of national standards of weights and measures
On and after the date from which, by virtue of the operation of the Commonwealth Act, the Commonwealth legal units of measurement of a physical quantity are the sole legal units of measurement of that physical quantity, a reference in any Act to a unit of measurement of that physical quantity shall, if there is a Commonwealth legal unit of measurement of that physical quantity of the same name and unless the contrary intention appears, be read as a reference to that Commonwealth legal unit of measurement.
In this section – Commonwealth Act means the National Measurement Act 1960 of the Commonwealth, and includes that Act as amended from time to time and any Commonwealth Act passed in substitution for that Act;Commonwealth legal unit of measurement means a unit of measurement prescribed under the Commonwealth Act.
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