Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 4

  (1)   The objects of this Act are:

  (a)   to establish a national system of units and standards of measurement of physical quantities; and

  (b)   to provide for the uniform use of those uniform units and standards of measurement throughout Australia; and

  (c)   to co - ordinate the operation of the national system of measurement; and

  (d)   to bring about the use of the metric system of measurement in Australia as the sole system of measurement of physical quantities; and

  (e)   to provide for a national system of trade measurement;

and this Act shall be construed accordingly.

  (1A)   Subsection   (2) does not apply in respect of the application of this Act and regulations to utility meters used for trade.

Note:   Section   4A deals with the application of the Act in respect of utility meters used for trade

  (2)   This Act and the regulations do not apply to the exclusion of any law of a State or Territory except in so far as that law is inconsistent with an express provision of this Act or of the regulations.