Adaptation of enactments to metric units or appropriate metric unitsN.I.
45 .F1—F2(1) Regulations may amend—
(a)any of the relevant statutory provisions; or
(b)any provision of a statutory provision which relates to any matter relevant to any of the general purposes of this Part but is not among the relevant statutory provisions;
by substituting an amount or quantity expressed in metric units for an amount or quantity not so expressed or by substituting an amount or quantity expressed in metric units of a description specified in the regulations for an amount or quantity expressed in metric units of a different description.
(2) The amendments shall be such as to preserve the effect of the provisions mentioned except to such extent as in the opinion of the Department concerned is necessary to obtain amounts expressed in convenient and suitable terms.
(3) Regulations may, in the case of a provision which falls within paragraph (1) and contains words which refer to units other than metric units, repeal those words if the Department concerned is of the opinion that those words could be omitted without altering the effect of that provision.
F1mod. by SR 2000/87; 2000/120
F2mod. by 2002 c. 8 (NI)