Singapore legislation

Clause 3

Units of measurement

(1)

The yard or the metre shall be the unit of measurement of length and the pound or the kilogram shall be the unit of measurement of mass by reference to which any measurement involving a measurement of length or mass shall be made in Singapore; and —

(a)

the yard shall be 0.9144 metre exactly; and

(b)

the pound shall be 0.453 592 37 kilogramme exactly.

(2)

The First Schedule shall have effect for defining, for the purposes of measurements falling to be made in Singapore, the units of measurements set out in that Schedule; and for the purposes of any measurement of weight falling to be so made, the weight of anything may be expressed, by reference to the units of measurements set out in Part V of that Schedule, in the same terms as its mass.

(3)

The Minister may by order amend subsection (1) —

(a)

by deleting the yard as the unit of measurement of length; and

(b)

by deleting the pound as the unit of measurement of mass,by reference to which any measurement involving a measurement of length or mass shall be made in Singapore.

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