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| Metric Units (Consequential Provisions) Law |
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A LAW TO AMEND CERTAIN ENACTMENTS IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE METRIC UNITS OF MEASUREMENT AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO.
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BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :-
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[16th August
, 1978 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Law may be cited as the Metric Units (Consequential Provisions) Law, No. 40 of 1978, and shall come into operation on such date (hereafter in this Law referred to as the ” appointed date “) as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette.
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Amendment of certain enactments.
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2. The enactments set out in Column I of the Schedule to this Law shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in the corresponding entry in Column II of that Schedule.
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Contracts or orders under the amending enactments to continue in force.
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3. Nothing in this Law shall be deemed to invalidate-
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(a) any contract subsisting on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, or
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(b) any order made under any of the enactments set out in Column I of the Schedule hereto and in force on such date,
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whereby any act or thing is required to be done or performed by reference to any units of measurement other than metric units of measurement.
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