Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 11

    Where, for any legal purpose:

  (a)   it is necessary to convert a measurement of a physical quantity expressed in terms of one of the Australian legal units of measurement of that physical quantity to a measurement expressed in terms of another Australian legal unit of measurement; or

  (b)   it is necessary to convert a measurement of a physical quantity expressed in terms of a unit of measurement (not being an Australian legal unit of measurement) of that physical quantity to a measurement expressed in terms of one of the Australian legal units of measurement;

the prescribed conversion factors shall, where applicable, be used.