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national measurement act 1960

determination by the national standards commission

Recognized-Value Standard of Measurement
of Acceleration due to Gravity

In pursuance of paragraph 8A(1) (a) of the National Measurement Act 1960, the National Standards Commission hereby determines that the magnitude of the acceleration in vacuum of a body due to the gravitational attraction of the earth as designated in the Schedule shall be a recognized-value standard of measurement.

The Schedule

           Place      Acceleration
At any point on the floor of
room B245 of the National      9.796 376 m.s -2
Measurement Laboratory,
Lindfield, New South Wales.

For the purposes of this determination the above value is exact.

Dated this 21st day of March 1985

The common seal of the national    T.J. PETRY
standards commission was herto
affixed by authority of the
Commission in the presence of