Statutory Rules 1984 No. 1951

Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Weights and Measures (National Standards) Act 1960.

Dated 2 August 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Science and Technology

Regulation 5 of the Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

The metre

“5. The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 August 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1961 No. 142 as amended by 1963 No. 126; 1964 No. 146; 1965 No. 13; 1968 No. 150; 1970 No. 40; 1972 Nos. 62, 133 and 160; 1973 Nos. 68 and 253; 1977 No. 150; 1979 No. 65; 1981 No. 195; 1983 No. 64.

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