Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1991 No. 146 NATIONAL MEASUREMENT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 2

2.1 Subregulation 79 (3):
Omit "and expressed".
2.2 Subregulation 79 (3):
Omit "authorized" (wherever occurring), substitute "authorised".
2.3 Add at the end:

"(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), the accuracy of the verification of
a State primary standard of measurement must be expressed as an uncertainty
that does not exceed:

   (a)  in the case of a State primary standard for the measurement of length
        that is of a denomination referred to in Column 1 in Schedule 31-the
        amount of permissible uncertainty specified in Column 2 in that
        Schedule in relation to that denomination; or

   (b)  in the case of a State primary standard for the measurement of mass
        that is of a denomination referred to in Column 1 in Schedule 31A-the
        amount of permissible uncertainty specified in Column 2 in that
        Schedule in relation to that denomination; or

   (c)  in the case of a State primary standard for the measurement of mass
        that is of a denomination not referred to in Column 1 in Schedule
        31A-the amount of permissible uncertainty appropriate to that
        denomination when the mathematical method known as linear
        interpolation is applied to the amounts of permissible uncertainty
        specified in Column 2 in that Schedule.

"(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(d), the value of the standard of
measurement is the value ascertained under standard reference conditions of 20
degrees Celsius temperature and 101.325 kilopascals pressure.".