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accepted in international conventions.
Not affected by the Regulations are those non-metric
units of measurement not specifically withdrawn from use.
In other words, such units of measurement as the pint, the
mile, the pound and the ounce are not outlawed. In fact,
the Directive provides that the use of these and other units
of measurement are authorised until a date which will be
fixed by the EEC Council.
Finally, it is to be regretted that the Regulations, which
amount to not much more than a direct transcription of
the Directive, leave the situation with regard to units of
measurement in a state of uncertainty. This fact is not
helped by the usual surreptitious manner in which the
Regulations were introduced. A more general criticism is
the altogether unsatisfactory practice of amending Acts
of Parliament by Statutory Instrument.
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Footnotes
1. Statutory Instrument No. 235 of 1983.
2. Council Directive 8 0 / 1 8 1 / EEC of 20/12/1979. O.J. L39 15/2/80
page 40.
3. Systeme Internationale as adopted by the International Organisa-
tion for Standardisation in 1974.
4. European Communities (Units of Measurement) Regulations of
1976 — Repealed by the 1983 Regulations.
5. Schedule 2 provides a short list of highly technical units of
measurement, the use of which is authorised only until December
1985. Schedule 3 describes the national standards for the metre and
the kilogram. They are deposited with the MRS.
For Your Diary . . .
7/8 April 1984 Society of Young Solicitors Spring
Seminar. Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, Co. Clare. Topics
include "Current Aspects of Banking Practice"
(Speaker: Daniel O'Keefe, B.C.L., LL.B., A.C.A.);
"Some Legal Problems in enacting Divorce Legisla-
tion — Facing the day after" (Speaker: Patrick
Horgan, Lecturer in Law, UCC); "Arbitral Affairs"
(Speaker: Max W. Abrahamson, Solicitor); "Practical
Aspects of Risk Protection for the Client and the
Solicitor" (Speaker: Michael P. Houlihan, Solicitor).
3/6 May 1984 Law Society Annual Conference. Europe
Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Brochures giving full
details and booking forms available shortly from Ms.
M. O'Connor, Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7.
16 June 1984. Solicitors' Apprentices Debating Society of
Ireland. Centenary Ball. President's Hall, Blackhall
Place, Dublin 7. Tickets £21.00 each. (Apprentices —
£10.00 each.)
3/7 September, 1984. International Bar Association 20th
Biennial Conference. Programmes available from
Margaret Byrne at the Law Society, Blackhall Place,
Dublin 7 or from the IBA, 2 Harewood Place, London
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