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| (1) For the purposes of this Act, the Minister may, from time to time, procure such standards of the unite of as he may consider necessary. |
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| (2) Every standard of any unit of measurement procured subsection (1) shall be an equivalent of a unit of as defined In the First Schedule hereto, or any or submutiple of any such units of measurement |
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| (3) A deacription of every standard of any unit of procured under subsection (1) shall be in the Gazette on a direction by the Director. |
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| (4) Every standard of any unit of measurement procured under subsection (1) shall be calibrated and certified at the Laboratory of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures or at any other National Laboratory of any other country or calibrated by a standard method before such a standard is brought into use in Sri Lanka: |
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| (5) The Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare that a standard of any unit of measurement, which has been procured and published under this section, shall be brought into use in Sri Lanka and such standard shall upon publication become a Sri Lanka standard and shall for all purposes whatsoever be deemed to be true and accurate. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts