Terms used
3 Terms used
In this Act unless the contrary intention appears —
metric system of measurement means measurement in terms of —
the units comprised in the International System of Units for the time being approved by the General Conference on Weights and Measures;
units decimally related to those units and for the time being so approved;
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 —
any proclamation or Order in Council;
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).]
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