
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Metrication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994, and shall come into operation on 4th July 1994.
2 
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
3 
The Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 shall be amended as follows—
(a) in section 25 (power of district council to enforce drainage of undrained houses) for “one hundred feet” on both occasions where it occurs substitute “30.5 metres”;
(b) in section 27 (penalty on braiding house without drains in any district) for “one hundred feet” substitute “30.5 metres”; and
(c) in Schedule C, Form E for “one hundred feet” substitute “30.5 metres”.
4 
The Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907 shall be amended as follows—
(a) in section 18 (crossing for cattle &c. over footways) for “four feet in width or two hundred-weight in weight” substitute “1.22 metres in width or 101.69 kilograms in weight”; and
(b) in section 94(5) (power to license pleasure boats) for “one inch in height and three-quarters of an inch in breath” substitute “2.54 centimetres in height and 1.91 centimetres in breadth”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
R. W. Rogers
Assistant Secretary
23rd May 1994.