Metrication Amendments (Dutiable Commodities Ordinance) Order
[3 August 1982]
(Format changes—E.R. 1 of 2013)
This order may be cited as the Metrication Amendments (Dutiable Commodities Ordinance) Order.
Subject to paragraphs 3 and 4, the use of non-metric units in documents submitted under the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (Cap. 109) on or after the commencement of this order is prohibited.
Non-metric units shall continue to be used in documents submitted under the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (Cap. 109) until 1 January 1983—
where such documents constitute amendments to, or otherwise relate to, other documents in which non-metric units have been used; and
where such other documents were submitted before the commencement of this order, unless such other documents were resubmitted incorporating the use of metric terms in place of the non-metric terms previously used.
References to the gross tonnage or register tonnage of any ship determined in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Registration) (Tonnage) Regulations (Cap. 415 sub. leg. C) may continue to be used in documents submitted under the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (Cap. 109) on and after the commencement of this order.
No document shall be submitted under the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (Cap. 109) containing references to both metric and non-metric units.
Without prejudice to paragraph 3, 4, or 7, each of the enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule is amended by deleting the expression specified in the second column in relation to that enactment, and substituting for each expression so deleted the expression, if any, opposite to it in the third column.
In respect of any premises or equipment which on the commencement of this order is included in any licence, permit or other authority granted under an enactment specified in the first column of the Schedule, or in any application for such, the references specified in the second column shall continue to apply as if they had not been affected by this order so long as the licence, permit or other authority in which it is or becomes included, or any renewal thereof, remains in force.