[ingliz]

The following bill is being put forth by the members of SN-RF for consideration by the full house of parliament.

Voting shall run for three full days. Polls shall "officially" open at 1:00 pm GMT and will close on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at the same time. To reiterate, that is June 7 until June 10 at 1:00 pm GMT.

The appropriate voting parameters are as follows:

Aye: support for the bill.
Nay: Against the bill.
Abstain: Neither for nor against. (Per interim constitution these votes will be thrown out).
No vote at all: Counted as Abstention.

The fundamental requirements are:

i) The units of measurement that are “legal for trade” - The metre shall be the unit of measurement of length and the kilogram shall be the unit of measurement of mass by reference to which any measurement involving a measurement of length or mass shall be made.

ii) All traders must display the “unit price” – that is, the price per legal, metric unit for “loose goods” sold from bulk.

iii) All shops must display the "unit price" for packaged goods

iv) Weighing and measuring equipment must weigh or measure in metric units.

v) Weights and measures used must be metric.

vi) Imperial units must not be used for trade.

vii) Prices must be displayed in metric.

viii) Traders and packers may display a “supplementary indication” (imperial conversion) provided that it is not more prominent than the legal, metric unit (NB. This would not mean that imperial measures may be used for weighing or measuring at the point of sale or as a primary measure on price labels).

ix) For the purposes of this Act, metric units will be converted to imperial units, "supplementary indicators", using the following tables. "Supplementary indicators" may only be rounded down:

Conversion tables

(1) Length
inch 1 in = 2.54 × 10-2m
foot 1 ft = 0.3048 m
yard 1 yd = 0.9144 m
mile 1 mile = 1609 m

(2) Area
square foot 1 sq ft = 0.929 × 10-1 m2
square yard 1 sq yd = 0.8361 m2
acre 1 ac = 4047 m2

(3) Volume
fluid ounce 1 fl oz = 28.41 × 10-6 m3
gill 1 gill = 0.1421 × 10-3 m3
pint 1 pt = 0.5683 × 10-3 m3
quart 1 qt = 1.137 × 10-3 m3
gallon 1 gal = 4.546 × 10-3 m3

(4) Mass
ounce (avoirdupois) 1 oz = 28.35 × 10-3 kg
troy ounce 1 oz tr = 31.10 × 10-3 kg
pound 1 lb = 0.4536 kg

(5) Energy
therm 1 therm = 105.506 × 106 J

[ingliz]

Aye

[Potemkin]

Aye.

[Vladimir]

Aye

[Holt]

Aye

[Thunderhawk]

I request this bill be postponed for 1 week for new consultation. Otherwise, I will propose a bill soon after this one for another set of measurements to be used as the standard.
(though I will likely this bill's format)

[ingliz]

+++The vote is in progress and cannot be stopped+++

But there is nothing to stop you from introducing a private member's bill of your own, on the same subject, whenever you wish to do so.

PM me with the details when you are ready to put it to the vote and I will open another voting thread.

ingliz, Clerk of the House

[Subversive Rob]

Aye.

Sorry about my inactivity of late, family issues.

[Zyx]

MP Thunderhawk has a point. There was no Consultation of this bill. Whereas there was a debate in a thread, it wasn't a required debate or any.

As to me, I support the cgs system.

But I'll vote Aye.

cgs is best in the sciences, anyway.

[Brio]

Aye.

[Andres]

Aye, although I would prefer if we used a system of natural units instead.

[HoniSoit]

Aye.

[dilpill]

Aye

[Zagadka]

Aye

[Dr House]

Nay!

[Oxymoron]

Double Nay to the tenth power.

[Thunderhawk]

Aye, although I would prefer if we used a system of natural units instead.

[Dave]

Nay this is gay

[Demosthenes]

AYE

[MistyTiger]

Aye