Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 19

    Where regulations that prescribe units of measurement of physical quantities are made under section   7A, but the regulations are not, or part of the regulations is not, to take effect immediately upon the date of notification of the regulations in the Gazette :

  (a)   standards of measurement of those physical quantities may be maintained under section   8;

  (b)   the powers conferred by section   8A may be exercised; and

  (c)   State primary standards of measurement, and reference standards of measurement, of those physical quantities may be verified, and certificates issued in respect of the verification;

at any time after the date of notification of the regulations in the Gazette , as if the whole of the regulations had taken effect on that date.