Corporate Body
National Standards Commission (1950 - )
- From
- 1950
North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia - Functions
- Advisory or regulatory body and Weights or Measurement Industries
- Website
- http://www.measurement.gov.au/
- Reference No
- CA 2924
- Legal Status
- Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Summary
The National Standards Commission was established in 1950 as a Commonwealth statutory authority. The Commission operates under the National Measurement Act 1960. The Commission is responsible for advising the Government on the scientific, technical and legislative requirements of Australia's national measurement system, and has specific responsibilities for coordinating the national measurement system, ensuring that trade measurement instruments comply with international and national legal metrology standards, and for the completion of metrication. Taken in part from their web site, August 2001.
Related entries
Published resources
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-631523. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Primary description of agency CA 2924; National Standards Commission. Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202924. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_n.html. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 20 August 2001, Last modified: 17 June 2010
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