AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
PLANT DISEASES REGULATIONS 1978
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
No. 6 of 1978

The main object of the Plant Diseases Regulations 1978 No.6 (the amending Regulations) is to convert units of measurement from the imperial system to the metric system in the Plant Diseases Regulations (the principal Regulations).

The bulk of the conversion has been done through the provisions of Regulations 3 and 5 of the amending Regulations.

Regulation 20 of the principal Regulations has been repealed and re-enacted in substance by Regulation 2 of the amending Regulations.  The reason for this course of action was to clarify the meaning of Regulation 20.

The new Regulation 20 coupled with the new Second Schedule provided by Regulation 4 of the amending Regulations completes the conversion to metric.

To accord with current drafting practice Regulation 1 of the amending Regulations repeals Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations.  Regulation 2 divided the Regulations into Parts.