Australian Capital Territory
Acts Revision (Metric Conversion) Act 1977    (repealed)
A1977-64
Republication No 1
Effective:  5 March 1996
Republication date: 15 November 2007
As repealed by A1996-1 sch

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

About this republication
The republished law
This is a republication of the Acts Revision (Metric Conversion) Act 1977 (repealed) effective 5 March 1996.
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Australian Capital Territory

acts revision (metric conversion) act 1977
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Repealed by No. 1, 1996 (in force 4 March 1996)
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
	1.	Short title
	2.	Amendments of Acts
SCHEDULE
Amendments of Acts

An Act to revise the Acts of the Territory in consequence of the adoption of the metric system of measurement
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Acts Revision (Metric Conversion) Act 1977.1
Amendments of Acts
2.  The Acts specified in the Schedule are amended as set out in that Schedule.2

	SCHEDULE	Section 2
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NOTES
1.	Act No. 64, 1977; notified in the ACT Gazette on 22 December 1977; commenced on 22 December 1977, repealed by Law Reform (Abolitions and Repeals) Act 1996 A1996-1 sch on 4 March 1996 (s 2 and Gaz 1996 No S31).
	Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989 (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to be cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.
2.	S. 2—The amendments made by section 2 have been incorporated in the reprints in this collection of the amended laws that are still in force.  The Schedule has been omitted from this reprint; its full text may be found in the 1977-1978 volume of “Laws of the Australian Capital Territory” at page 311.  The following laws were amended by the Schedule:
Canberra Theatre Trust Act 1965
Careless Use of Fire Act 1936
Cemeteries Act 1933
Church Lands Leases Act 1924
City Area Leases Act 1936
Cotter River Act 1914
Hawkers Act 1936
Pounds Act 1928
Public Parks Act 1928
Rabbit Destruction Act 1919
Rural Workers Accommodation Act 1938
Soil Conservation Act 1960
Stock Act 1934
Traffic Act 1937
Unlawful Assemblies Ordinance1937.

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