(1) For the purposes of this Act, the Minister shall procure and cause to be maintained a national standard metre and a national standard kilogram and procure and cause to maintain such standards of the other units of measurement as he or she may consider necessary.
(2) Every standard of any unit of measurement procured under subsection (1) shall be the equivalent of a unit of measurement defined in Schedule 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 2 or any multiple or sub-multiple of any such unit of measurement, and shall be made of such materials and in such manner as to be, as far as practicable, proof against mechanical and atmospheric agents and other sources of error.