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Weights and Measures Metric Equivalents Act 1973-74

COOK ISLANDS


WEIGHTS AND MEASURES METRIC EQUIVALENTS ACT 1973-74


ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Table of metric equivalents
3. General provisions as to offences
4. Administration
Schedule


1973-74, No. 29

An Act to provide for the establishment of metric equivalents of imperial weights and measures

(18 April 1974

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session, assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows:

  1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Weights and Measures Metric Equivalents Act 1973-74.

  1. Table of metric equivalents

(1) The Table as set out in the Schedule to this Act shall be the conversions from imperial weights and measures to metric weights and measures.

(2) Every person commits an offence against this Act who uses or causes to be used for the purposes of trade any other conversion and shall be liable on conviction, in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in the case of a company to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

  1. General provisions as to offences

Section 27 of the Control of Prices Act 1966 shall apply, as if such was part of this Act, to any offences committed under this Act.

  1. Administration

This Act shall be administered by the Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures.

SCHEDULE

Section 2(1)

TABLE OF METRIC EQUIVALENTS

1. Equivalents shall be -

Length
Mass
Volume
- yard
-pound
(capacity) – gallon
= 0.914 4 metre exactly
= 0.453 592 37 kilogram exactly
- 4.546 09 litres

2. Selected metric units derived from the metre and the kilogram are:

Measures of Length

Unit
Equivalent
Kilometre
km
1000 metres
Metre
m
The metre is the length equal to 1 650 763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the level 2p10 and 5d5 of the krypton - 86 atom.
Decimetre
dm
1/10 metre
Centimetre
cm
1/100 metre
Millimetre
mm
1/1000 metre

Measures of Area


Unit
Equivalent
Hectare
ha
10 000 square metres
Are
a
100 square metres
Square metre
m2
An area equal to that of a square each side of which measures a metre.
Square centimetre
cm2
1/10 000 square metre
Square millimetre
mm2
1/1 000 000 square metre
Measure of Volume (Cubic Content)
Unit
Equivalent
Cubic metre
m3
A volume equal to that of a cube each edge of which measures one metre.
Cubic decimetre
dm3
1/1000 cubic metre
Cubic centimetre
cm3
1/1000 cubic decimetre
Cubic millimetre
mm3
1/1000 cubic centimetre
Measure of Capacity
Unit
Equivalent
Hectolitre
hl
100 litres
Litre
l
1/1000 cubic metre
Millilitre
ml
1/1000 litre

Measure of Mass or Weight


Unit
Equivalent
Tonne
 t
1000 kilograms
Kilogram
kg
The kilogram is the unit of mass represented by the mass of the international prototype kilogram.
Gram
g
1/1000 kilogram
Milligram
mg
1/1000 gram
Carat (metric)
1/5 gram

The units of measurement of weight -

(a) Have the same names, and may be referred to by the same abbreviations or symbols, as units of measurement of mass; and
(b) Are such that the weight of an object expressed in terms of any one of them is numerically the same as the mass of the object expressed in terms of the unit of measurement of mass having the same name.

This Act is administered by the Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1974.

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