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The Measures of Length Act, 1889
1ACT NO. II OF 1889
[15th February, 1889]
An Act to declare the imperial standard yard for the
WHEREAS
it is expedient to declare the imperial
standard
yard
for
the
United Kingdom to be the legal standard measure of length in
2[Pakistan]; It is hereby enacted as
follows:---
1. Title, extent and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Measures of
Length Act, 1889.
3[(2) It extends to the whole of
(3) It shall come into force on such 4day as the 5[Federal Government]
may appoint in this
behalf.
2. Standard yard. The imperial standard yard for the
3. Measure for determining length of standard yard.
A copy, approved by the
6[Provincial Government], of the imperial standard for determining the length of the imperial standard yard for the United Kingdom shall be kept in such place within
the limits of the
7[Province] as
the
6[Provincial
Government] may prescribe,
and shall
be
the
standard
for determining the length of the standard yard:---
1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1888, Pt. V, p. 41; for
Report of the Select Committee, see ibid., 1 889, Pt. IV, p. 6: and for Proceedings in
Council, see ibid.,
1888, Pt. Vl, pp. 66
and
82, and ibid., 1889, Pt. VI, p. 20.
This Act has been applied to Phulera in the Excluded Area of Upper Tanawa to the extent the Act is applicable in the- N.W.F.P., subject to certain modifications and also extended to
the
excluded Area of Upper Tanawal (N.W.F.P.) other than Phulera with effect from such date and
subject to such modifications as may be notified, see N.W.F.P. (Upper
Tanawal) (Excluded Area) Laws Regulation, 1950.
It shall be deemed to have been repealed in the N.W.F.P. when part V of
the
N.W.F.P. Act 23 of
1947 comes into force in that Province, see s. 42
of the N.W.F.P. Weights and Measures Act, 1947 (23 of 1947), and shall also be deemed to have been repealed in any area in the
Part VI of Punjab Act 12 of
1941 comes into
force in that Area.
2 Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October, 1955) for “the
Provinces and
the Capital of the Federation” which had been subs. by A.O., 1949, Arts. 3(2) and 4, for “
3 Sub-section (2) as amended by A. O., 1949, Arts. 3(2) 4, has been subs. by Ord. 21 of 1960, s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th
October, 1955).
4 The Act was brought into force on
the 15th June, 1889, see Gazette of India,
1889, Pt. I, p. 305.
5 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975, Art. 2
and
Table, for
“Central Government”, which
had
been subs, A.O., 1937. for “G. G. in C”,
6 Subs. by A. O., 1937, for
“G.G. in C.”.
7 Subs. ibid., for “Town of
1* * * * * * *
4. Standard foot and inch. One-third part of the standard yard shall be called a standard foot, and one-thirty-sixth part of such a yard shall be called a standard inch.
5. Presumption in favour of accuracy of certified measures. Any measure having
stamped thereon or affixed thereto a certificate purporting to be made 2[before the first day of April,
1937, under the authority of any Government in 3[Pakistan] or on or after that date under the authority
of the Provincial Government] and stating that the measure is of the length of the
standard yard or that a measure marked thereon as a foot or inch is of the length of the standard foot
or standard inch, as the case may be, shall, when produced
before any Court by any public
servant having charge of the measure in pursuance
of any direction published in an official
Gazette 4[by order of the Provincial Government], or by any person acting under the general or special authority of such a public
servant, be deemed to be correct until its inaccuracy is pro ved.
6. Inspection of certified measures by the public. A public servant having
in pursuance of such a direction charge of such a measure as is mentioned
in the last foregoing
section shall allow any person to inspect it free of charge at all reasonable times and to compare therewith or
with any measure marked thereon any measure which such person may have in his possession.
7. Certified measures to be kept by authorities required by existing enactments to keep measures of
length. There shall be kept
5* * * by
the
District Magistrate
under section 20 of Regulation XII of 1827 of the Bombay Code, such certified measures of the 
standard yard, standard foot and standard inch as are mentioned in section 5.
1 Proviso
which was ins. by
A.
O., 1937, omitted by Ord. 21 of
1960, s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th
October, 1955).
2 Subs. by A. O., 1937, for “under
the
authority of
the
G. G. in C. or of
a L. G.”.
3 Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3
and
2nd
Sch. (with effect from
the 14th October. 1955), for
“the
Provinces and the Capital of
the Federation” which
bad
been subs. by A.O., 1949, Arts. 3 (2) and
4,
for “
4Subs. by A. O., 1937, for “by order of
the
G. G. in C. or the L. G.”.
5The words and figures “by the Commissioner of
Police in the Town of Calcutta under section
55, of the Calcutta Police Act, 1866, * *
* by
the
Commissioner of
Police in
the
City of Madras under section
32
of the Madras City Police Act, 1888, by the Municipal Commissioner in
the
City of
1888 which were rep. by Act 24 of 1934, s. 2
and
Sch.
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