S.I. No. 283/2001 - European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001
I, Mary Harney, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive 89/617/EEC of 27 November 1989, hereby make the following Regulations: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. In these Regulations- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Principal Regulations” mean the European Communities (Units of Measurement) Regulations 1992 ( S.I. No. 255 of 1992 ); | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Regulations of 1998” mean the European Communities (Units of Measurement) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 ( S.I. No. 510 of 1998 ). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. Regulation 4(2) of the Principal Regulations is amended by the substitution for paragraph (e) (inserted by the Regulations of 1998) of the following paragraphs: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“(e) for the specific field of application set out in Schedule 6 to these Regulations, the units of measurement listed therein may be used until 31 December 2002 and shall not be used thereafter, and | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(f) for the specific field of application set out in Schedule 7 of these Regulations, the units of measurement listed therein may be used until 31 December 2005 and shall not be used thereafter.”. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4. The Principal Regulations are amended by the substitution for Schedule 6 (inserted by the Regulations of 1998) of the following: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Schedule 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legal Units of Measurement referred to in Regulation 4(2)(e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legal Units of Measurement referred to in Regulation 4(2)(f) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Until the dates referred to in Regulations 4(2)(e) and (f) of these Regulations, the units listed in Schedules 6 and 7 may be combined with each other and with those in Schedule 1 of the Principal Regulations to form compound units.”. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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EXPLANATORY NOTE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
These Regulations provide for a further extension of the time period during which conversion of road distance and speed measurement signs to units of the metric system may be carried out. |