3786
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 114

The Standards Act 1965—Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to section 23 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 23 November 1979, amended the under-mentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder.

Number, Title, and Price of Standard Specification (Post free)
NZS 6504:— (BS 4484:—) Measuring instruments for constructional works—
Part 1: 1975 (BS 4484: Part 1: 1969) Metric graduation and figuring of instruments for linear measurement. $11.40.

Amendment Number
B (Gratis)

Copies of the amendment so amended may be ordered from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center, 15-23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington.

Copies of the amendment will be supplied free of charge upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of December 1979.
DENYS R. M. PINFOLD,
Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/3: 1043)

The Standards Act 1965—Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to section 23 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 30 November 1979, amended the under-mentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder.

Number, Title, and Price of Standard Specification (Post free)
NZS 8403:1973 Grades of meat and definitions of cuts of meat for sale on the New Zealand market. $4.65.

Amendment Number
2 (Gratis)

Copies of the amendment so amended may be ordered from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center, 15-23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington.

Copies of the amendment will be supplied free of charge upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of December 1979.
DENYS R. M. PINFOLD,
Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/3: 1042)

The Standards Act 1965—Specifications Declared to be Standard Specifications

PURSUANT to section 23 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 30 November 1979, declared the under-mentioned specifications to be standard specifications.

Number, Title, and Price of Specification (Post free)
NZS 3619:1979 Timber windows. $6.05.
NZS 4211:1979 Performance of windows. $6.85.
NZS 5402:1979 (ISO 668:1979) Series 1 freight containers. Classification, external dimensions and ratings. $8.25. (Including Amendment A.)

Copies of the standard specifications may be ordered from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center, 15-23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of December 1979.
DENYS R. M. PINFOLD,
Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/2: 702-704)

The Standards Act 1965—Endorsements Cancelled

PURSUANT to section 17 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 30 November 1979, cancelled the endorsement of the under-mentioned specifications.

Number and Title of Specification
BS 3494:— Recommendations on semi-conductor devices—
Part 1: 1967 Essential electrical and mechanical ratings and characteristics.
Part 2: 1966 Methods of measurement of the characteristics of diodes and transistors.

BS 4017:1973 Capacitors for use in tubular fluorescent, high-pressure mercury and low-pressure sodium vapour lamp circuits. (A later edition of this standard has been endorsed as suitable for use in New Zealand.)

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of December 1979.
DENYS R. M. PINFOLD,
Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/12: 131-33)

The Standards Act 1965—Miscellaneous Publication Adopted

PURSUANT to section 17 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 3 December 1979, approved the issue of the under-mentioned miscellaneous publication.

Number, Title, and Price of Publication (Post free)
MP 4212:1979 Glossary of building terminology. $8.55. (Revises and supersedes NZS 1243:1956.)

Copies of the publication may be ordered from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center, 15-23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of December 1979.
DENYS R. M. PINFOLD,
Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/5: 116)

The Standards Act 1965—Draft New Zealand Standard Specification Available for Comment

PURSUANT to subsection (3) of section 23 of the Standards Act 1965, notice is hereby given that the following draft New Zealand standard specification is being circulated.

Number and Title of Specification
DZ 5811 Draft specification for industrial safety belts and harnesses (A4, 50 pages, $3.00).

NOTE—Part 1 of this draft standard incorporates a specification for the materials, design, manufacture and testing of industrial safety belts and harnesses intended to withstand a free fall of the wearer over a specified distance. It applies to three types of belt and three types of harness, and to their attachments.

Part 2 sets out a code of practice on the selection, use and maintenance of safety belts, harnesses and self-locking safety anchorages.

When published, the standard will replace NZS 1661 and NZS 2253.

All persons who may be affected by this publication and who desire to comment thereon, may obtain copies at the price shown, from the Standards Association of New Zealand, World Trade Center, 15-23 Sturdee Street (or Private Bag), Wellington.

NOTE—Payment must accompany all requests for drafts. The closing date for the receipt of comment is 31 January 1980.

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of November 1979.
DENYS R. M. PINFOLD,
Director, Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/8)

The Standards Act 1965—Standard Specifications Revoked

PURSUANT to section 23 of the Standards Act 1965, the Standards Council, on 30 November 1979, revoked the under-mentioned standard specifications.

Number and Title of Specifications
NZS 218:1949 (BS 827:1939) Radio-interference suppression for trolley-buses and tramways.
†NZS 490:1952 (BS 16:1949) Telegraph material (insulators, pole fittings, etc.).
‡NZS 506:1961 (BS 204:1960) Glossary of terms used in telecommunication (including radio) and electronics.
§NZS 1241-44:1962 Portable chemical fire extinguishers.
NZS 1266:1955 (BS 586:1953) Photo-electric cells of the emission type for sound film apparatus.
*NZS 1495:1959 (BS 933:1941) Magnetic materials for use under combined d.c. and a.c. magnetization.
†NZS 1497:1959 (BS 1793:1952) Audio-frequency transformers for cinematograph equipment.
†NZS 1599:1961 (BS 2076:1954) Thermosetting synthetic-resin bonded-paper insulating sheets for use at radio frequencies.