STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 40

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (NATIONAL STANDARDS) ACT 1960-1966.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Weights and Measures (National Standards) Act 1960-1966.

Dated this twentieth day of March, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Nigel Bowen

Minister of State for Education and Science.

Amendments of the WEIGHTS and Measures (National Standards) REGULATIONS†

Units specified in the Third Schedule.

1. Regulation 11 of the Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “ the abbreviation ” and inserting in their stead the words “ an abbreviation ”.

Temperature Scales.

2. Regulation 65 of the Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1.) The International Practical Temperature Scale is the International Practical Temperature Scale of 1968 described in the Proceedings of the Thirteenth General Conference on Weights and Measures held in Paris in the years 1967 and 1968 and adopted in the year 1968 by the International Committee on Weights and Measures.”; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on   1970.

† Statutory Rules 1961, No. 142, as amended by Statutory Rules 1963, No. 126; 1964, No. 146; 1965, No. 13; and 1968, No. 150.

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(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“ (8.) A temperature having a numerical value on the 1948 Scale specified in column 1 in the Twenty-sixth Schedule has the numerical value on the 1968 Scale specified in column 2 in that Schedule opposite to that specified value.

“ (9.) Where a temperature has a numerical value on the 1948 Scale (in this sub-regulation referred to as ‘ the known numerical value ’) that is between two consecutive numerical values specified in column 1 in the Twenty-sixth Schedule, the temperature has the numerical value on the 1968 Scale ascertained in accordance with the formula—

where—

t1 is the known numerical value;

t2 and t3 are, respectively, the lesser and the greater of those two consecutive numerical values; and

t4 and t5 are the numerical values specified in column 2 in that Schedule opposite to t2 and t3, respectively.

“ (10.) Where a temperature has a numerical value on the 1968 Scale (in this sub-regulation referred to as ‘ the known numerical value ’) that is between two consecutive numerical values specified in column 2 in the Twenty-sixth Schedule, the temperature has the numerical value on the 1948 Scale ascertained in accordance with the formula—

where—

t1 is the known numerical value;

t2 and t3 are, respectively, the lesser and the greater of those two consecutive numerical values; and

t4 and t5 are the numerical values specified in column 1 in that Schedule opposite to t2 and t3, respectively.

“ (11.) For the purposes of the last three preceding sub-regulations and the Twenty-sixth Schedule—

‘ the 1948 Scale ’ means the International Practical Temperature Scale of 1948 described in the Proceedings of the Eleventh General Conference on Weights and Measures held in Paris in the year 1960 and adopted by that Conference;

‘ the 1968 Scale ’ means the International Practical Temperature Scale of 1968 referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.”.

Third Schedule.

3. The Third Schedule to the Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Regulations 10, 11 and 14.

UNITS OF MEASUREMENT OF MASS AND WEIGHT

The Schedules.

4. The Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations are amended by adding at the cud thereof the following Schedule:—

TWENTY-SIXTH SCHEDULE.

Regulation 65.

TABLE OF RELATED VALUES OF TEMPERATURES ON THE 1948 SCALE (t48 °C) AND ON THE 1968 SCALE (t68 °C).

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