The Road Traffic Acts 1960 and 1972, and Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 (Metrication) (No.2) Regulations 1981

Made7th September 1981

Laid before Parliament5th October 1981

Coming into Operation1st November 1981

The Secretary of State for Transport, being a Minister designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic Acts 1960 and 1972, and Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 (Metrication) (No.2) Regulations 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1981.

2.

For the words expressing imperial units of measurement specified in column (2) of the Schedule to these Regulations in the sections in the Road Traffic Act 1960, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967, and the Road Traffic Act 19722 specified in column (1) of that Schedule there are substituted the words expressing metric units of measurement specified in column (3) of that Schedule.

Norman Fowler

Secretary of State for Transport

7th September 1981

SCHEDULE

(1)	(2)	(3)
Sections of Acts	Words expressing imperial units of measurements	Words expressing metric units of measurement
Road Traffic Act 1960
section 253(2)(b)	sixty degrees Fahrenheit	17.5 degrees Celsius
	thirty inches of mercury	1.013 bar
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967
section 99(2)(b)	sixty degrees Fahrenheit	17.5 degrees Celsius
	thirty inches of mercury	1.013 bar
Road Traffic Act 1972
section 36A(5)	three tons	3050 kilograms
section 36A(6)(b)	three tons	3050 kilograms
section 36A(8)	three tons	3050 kilograms
section 190(2)(b)	60° Fahrenheit	17.5 degrees Celsius
	30 inches of mercury	1.013 bar

EXPLANATORY NOTE

In order to fulfil obligations arising from Council Directive 80/181/EEC of 20th December 1979 on the approximation of laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement, these Regulations, which are made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, metricate the units of measurement in the sections of the Road Traffic Acts 1960 and 1972, and the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 which are specified in the Schedule to these Regulations as indicated in that Schedule.