national measurement act 1960

determination by the national standards commission

Recognized-Value Standard of Measurement

of Acceleration due to Gravity

In pursuance of paragraph 8A(1) (a) of the National Measurement Act 1960, the National Standards Commission hereby determines that the magnitude of the acceleration in vacuum of a body due to the gravitational attraction of the earth as designated in the Schedule shall be a recognized-value standard of measurement.

The Schedule

       Place      Acceleration

At any point on the floor of

room B245 of the National      9.796 376 m.s -2

Measurement Laboratory,

Lindfield, New South Wales.

For the purposes of this determination the above value is exact.

Dated this 21st day of March 1985

The common seal of the national    T.J. PETRY

standards commission was herto

affixed by authority of the

Commission in the presence of