1973.
Local Government (Metric Conversion) .
No. 56.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (METRIC CONVERSION).
No. 56 of 1973.
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ANALYSIS.
Short title, citation, and commencement.
Metric substitutions.
Power of corporation to open new highways.
Protection of bridges and culverts.
AN ACT to amend the Local Government Act 1962 to
facilitate the use of a metric system of measurement.
[23 October 1973.]
BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:1-( 1)
This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Metric
•
Converszon) Act 1973.
( 2) The Local Government Act 1962, as subsequently amended,
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
( 3) This Act shall commence on a date to be fixed by proclamation.
S!>ol'!'tltle'd
citatiOn, an
commencement.
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No. 56.
Metric
substitutions.
2 Each provision of the Principal Act specified in the first column
of the schedule is amended by omitting therefrom, wherever they
occur, the words set out against that provision in the second column
of that schedule and sub~tituting for those words the words so set
out in the third column.
Pow~rof
3 Section three hundred and sixty of the Principal Act is amended
by adding at the end thereof the following subsection:-
corporation
to open new
highways.
Local Government (Metric Conversion) .
1973.
" ( 3) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this r,ection,
a way, a foot-way, or a pack-way in existence at the commMlcement
of the Local Government (Metric Conversion) Act 1973 may be
made and opened as a highway under this section if it could have been
so made and opened before that commencement,",
Protection of
bridges and
culverts.
4 Section four hundred and twenty of the Principal Act is
omitted and the following section is substituted therefor:" 420-( 1) The corporation may, on the certificate of its engineer
or surveyor, and shall on the certificate of the Director of Public
Works, that a force due to a certain mass is the greatest that can be
sustained by a bridge without risk of damage to the bridge or that
a certain speed is the greatest that can be used over a bridge without
such risk, put up a notice at each end of the bridge saying' maximum
mass, so many tonnes', ' maximum mass per axle so many tonnes',
or 'maximum speed, so many kilometres per hour', as the case
may be, and stating that maximum by a numeral and a unit measurement or a standard abbreviation or symbol therefor.
" ( 2) Any person who drives past such a notice and on to the
bridge to which it relates a vehicle the total mass of which exceeds
the mass shown in the notice or the mass on anyone axle of which
exceeds the mass per axle shown in the notice, or who drives a
vehicle over a bridge to which such a notice relates exceeding at any
part the speed shown in the notice is liable to a penalty of one
hundred dollars as well as for any damage done thereby,
" ( 3) A round yellow disc with a number in black thereon affixed
at the entrance of a bridge shall be deemed to be a notice saying
, maximum mass, that number of tonnes ',".
1973.
Local Government (Metric Conversion) .
No. 56.
THE SCHEDULE.
(Section 2.)
Provision.
Section 4 (1)
Section 80 (1) (c)
Section 277 (4)
Section 354 (a)
Section 354 (b)
Section 360 (2) (a) (ii)
Section 360 (2) (a) (ill)
Section 360 (2) (b) (i)
Section 360 (2) (b) (ii)
Section 361 (2) (a)
Section 361 (2) (a) (i)
Section 361 (2) (b)
Section 361 (2) (c)
Section 361 (2) (f)
Section 361 (2) (g)
Section 361 (2) (h)
Section 361 (2) (i)
Section 361 (2)
(n
Section 365 (5)
Section 366 (1)
Section 367 (1) (c)
Omission.
Substitution.
thirty-three feet
one hundred yards
mileage
fifteen miles
ten chains
twenty chains
twelve feet
six feet
one chain
thirty-three feet
twelve feet
forty-two feet
sixty feet
not less than threeeighths, and not more
than three-quarters of
an inch per foot
eight inches
to a three-inch ring-gauge
10 metres
100 metres
travelling expenses
25 kilometres
200 metres
400 metres
4 metres
3 metres
20 metres
10 metres
4 metres
12 metres
18 metres
not less than 3 per cent
and not more than 6
per cent
200 millimetres
to pass through a 75
millimetres square
opening
to a one-inch and one- to pass through a 37·5
half ring-gauge
millimetres square
opening
one-inch ring-gauge
26·5 millimetres square
opening
four inches
100 millimetres
3 metres
nine feet
sixty feet
18 metres
five feet
1· 5 metres
one-half inch per foot
4 per cent
three inches
80 millimetres
five inches
130 millimetres
twelve inches
300 millimetres
six inches
150 millimetres
four to eight inches
100 to 200 millimetres
eighteen inches
450 millimetres
five inches
130 millimetres
ten feet
3 metres
25 metres
seventy-five feet
eight feet
2· 5 metres
fourteen feet
4·5 metres
twenty feet
6 metres
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Pmvision.
Omission.
1973.
Substitution.
15 metres
200 metres
5 metres
10 metres
3 metres
6 metres
6 metres
6 metres
3 metres
per square metre
4 . 1 cents per cubic metre
21 . 2 cents per cubic
metre
13 . 1 cents per cubic
metre
3·7 cents
1· 2 cents
per cubic metre of timber
carried over a kilometre of road
6 metres
twenty feet
Section 432 (1) (a)
3·6 metres
Section 432 (1) (b)
twelve feet
6 metres
twenty feet
3·6 metres
Section 432 (4)
twelve feet
5 kilometres
Section 432A (4)
three miles
2 kilometres
one mile
7·5 metres
twenty-five
feet
Section 433 (1)
15 metres
fifty feet
18
metres
sixty
feet
Section 434 (a)
10 metres
Section 434 (b)
thirty-three feet
9 metres
thirty feet
12 metres
forty feet
Section 435
6
metres
twenty feet
10
square metres
one hundred square feet
Section 439 (2)
2
.
5
vertical metres
eight vertical feet
3 metres
Section 446 (1) (b)
ten feet
1 000 square metres
Section 462 (6) (b)
one rood
15 metres
Section 465 (1) (a) (i) fifty feet
18 metres
sixty feet
2 hectares
Section 470 (2) (b)
five acres
20 kilometres
Section 471 (1) (a)
twelve miles
13 kilometres
Section 471 (1) (b)
eight miles
Section 472 (1) (a) (i) four thousand square feet 370 square metres
12 metres
Section 472 (1) (a) (ii) fortv feet
12 metres
Section 472 (1) (a) (ill) forty feet
15 metres
fifty feet
Section 371 (1) (a)
Section 371 (1) (b)
Section 387 (1)
forty-six feet
ten chains
fifteen feet
thirty-three feet
ten feet
twenty feet
Section 387 (3)
twenty feet
Section 387 (4)
twenty feet
ten feet
Section 387 (4A)
per square foot
Section 421 (2) (b) (i) fifteen cents per cord
Section 421 (2) (b) (il) fifty cents for every one
thousand superficial feet
Section 421 (2) (b) (ill) ten cents for each cubic
yard
Section 421 (2) (c)
six cents
Section 421 (2) (c)
two cents
per ton of timber carried
over a mile of road
1973.
Local Government (Metric Conversion).
Provision.
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
Section 472
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
Omission.
(b)
(b)
(b)
(c)
(c)
(c)
(d)
(d)
(e)
(e)
(e)
(b)
(b)
(a)
(i)
(ii)
(ill)
(i)
(ii)
(ill)
(i)
(H)
(i)
(H)
(iii)
(ii)
(ill)
(i)
five thousand square feet
fifty feet
fifty feet
six thousand square feet
sixty feet
(1)
sixty feet
(1)
one rood
(1)
twenty feet
(1)
six thousand square feet
(1)
twenty feet
(1)
sixty feet
(2)
fifty-five feet
(2)
seventy feet
(.3)
five hundred square feet
seven hundred and fifty
square feet
three thousand square
feet
Section 472 (.3) (a) (H) fifteen feet
thirty feet
Section 472 (.3) (b) (i) twenty feet
Section 472 (.3) (b) (H) fifty feet
sixty feet
Section 472 (.3) (c) (i) four thousand square feet
forty feet
Section 472 (.3) (c) (H) four thousand square feet
thirty-eight feet
Section 472 (.3) (d) (i) two thousand square feet
twenty feet
seventy feet
Section 472 (.3) (d) (H) four thousand square feet
forty feet
eighty feet
fifty feet
Section 472 (.3) (d) (ill) five thousand square feet
fifty feet
ninety feet
fifty-five feet
Section 472 (.3) (e) (i) four thousand square feet
thirty feet
Section 472 (.3) (e) (ll) five thousand square feet
Section 472 (.3) (g) (i) twelve feet
Substitution.
460 square metres
15 metres
15 metres
550 square metres
18 metres
18 metres
1 000 square metres
6 metres
550 square metres
6 metres
18 metres
16 metres
20 metres
45 square metres
60 square metres
270 square metres
4· 5 metres
9 metres
6 metres
15 metres
18 metres
.370 square
12 metres
370 square
11 metres
180 square
6 metres
21 metres
370 square
12 metres
24 metres
15 metres
460 square
15 metres
27 metres
16 metres
370 square
9 metres
460 square
.3·6 metres
(A)
Section 472 (.3) (g) (i)
twelve feet
.3·6 metres
twelve feet
one hundred feet
twenty feet
.3·6 metres
.30 metres
6 metres
(B)
Section 472 (.3) (g) (H)
Section 473A (1)
Section 474 (.3) (a)
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Provision.
Section 474 (3) (b)
Section 474 (3) (c)
Section 502 (2)
Section 504 (1) (a)
Section 539 (4) (c)
Section 558A (1) (b)
Section 567 (2)
Section 571 (2)
Section 571 (3)
Section 615 (3) (d)
Section 617 (1) (b)
Section 666 (4) (c)
Section 704 (1)
Section 711 (1)
Section 711 (2)
Section 776 (8)
Section 832 (c)
Omission.
twenty-five feet
thirty feet
half a mile
a quarter of a mile
five miles
one hundred feet
two hundred feet
six miles
five miles
five miles
a quarter of a mile
two hundred yards
one hundred feet
twenty feet by eight feet
cubic feet
three hundred and twenty
cubic feet
a mile
one hundred yards
1973.
Substitution.
7· 5 metres
9 metres
one kilometre
500 metres
8 kilometres
30 metres
60 metres
10 kilometres
10 kilometres
10 kilometres
500 metres
200 metres
30 metres
.6 metres by 2· 5 metres
cubic metres
10 cubic metres
2 kilometres
100 metres