QuestionsQuestions (BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 8)
It adopts the metric system (SI) as the sole measurement system, effective January 1, 1983.
All products, commodities, materials, utilities, services, and commercial transactions; and also all contracts, deeds, and other official and legal instruments and documents.
It means the International System of Units (SI), established by the General Conference of Weights and Measures and interpreted or modified by the Metric System Board to suit Philippine conditions.
The Board refers to the Metric System Board established under Presidential Decree No. 187, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 748.
A unit is a value/quantity/magnitude in terms of which others are expressed; a base unit is dimensionally independent by convention; a derived unit is formed by combining base/supplementary units; and a supplementary unit is neither base nor derived.
Length: metre; Mass: kilogram; Time: second.
Electric current: ampere; Thermodynamic temperature: kelvin; Luminous intensity: candela.
The mole is the amount of substance containing as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12; when used, the elementary entities must be specified (e.g., atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles, or specified groups).
Plane angle: radian. Solid angle: steradian.
NIST establishes and maintains national standards of these units with concurrence of the Board; for the second, PAGASA establishes and maintains the national standard for the second with concurrence of the Board.
It takes charge of implementation, promulgates/enforces rules and regulations, including usage rules, metric conversion tables and factors, metrication programs, and weights and measures.
It is observed in November each year until 1983, with the Board managing activities for awareness and dissemination of informative materials.
The Board continues to exist and exercise powers/functions under PD 187 (as amended) until the end of 1984.
A fine not more than PHP 1,000 or imprisonment not more than one year, or both, at the court’s discretion. For a juridical person, the manager, representative, director, agent, and/or responsible employee may be liable.
He shall be deported after serving the sentence, without need for further proceedings for deportation.
Appropriations for the Metric System Board included in the 1979 General Appropriations Act for the first semester of 1979.
It repeals or modifies any inconsistent provisions of prior laws, decrees, orders, rules, and regulations.
Upon its approval.