Section 2: Primary standards.

(1) The Minister shall by an order cause to be provided, maintained or replaced standards of the metre and kilogramme which shall be the primary standards by reference to which, in Nigeria, all other standards of those units and of any other unit of measurement derived wholly or partly from any of those units shall be maintained.
(2) The Minister shall within two years of the commencement of this Act and thereafter at intervals of not more than ten years or as may appear to him expedient, cause the value of each of the primary standards to be verified against the corresponding standards of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France.
(3) Until other provision is made by an order under subsection (1) of this section, the Nigeria primary standards shall be-
(i) in the case of the metre, the bar described in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act; and
(ii) in the case of the kilogramme, the cyliuder described in Part II of the said Second Schedule.
(4)
The Sixth Schedule to this Act shall, until revoked pursuant to section 52 (2), have effect for defining for the purpose of measurements the units of measurement in that Schedule.
[Sixth Schedule.]