PD7777 published by British Standard Institute in 2000 proposes an additional fracture requirement to the main steel components of the low temperatures storage tank where a partial hydro static test is allowed instead of the full height hydro static test. In the PD7777 a high level (75J) of fracture toughness is required for the austenitic weld metal in 9%Ni steel plate to prevent the re-initiation of ductile fracture from the arrested brittle crack in the weld. However, it is seemed that this high level requirement is derived from the J-Cv correlation of carbon steel base plate and the ductile crack initiation behaviour of austenitic weld metal is conservatively assessed. This is to report a study that the J-Cv correlation of austenitic weld metal is determined by the experimental data obtained from the actual weld joints in 9%Ni steel plate in order to assess a rational toughness requirement to the austenitic weld metal employed in the 9% Ni made LNG storage tanks. From this study it is concluded that fracture toughness of 75J is too conservative and 50J is adequate. In addition an FEM analysis was performed to verify the validity of the weld including large amount of heterogeneity in yield strength distribution.There is a difficult problem that the requirements for thin plate by sub-size Charpy are much more conservative than full size Charpy requirement due to a characteristic that the absorbed energy of sub-size specimen remarkably decreases not in proportion to the specimen thickness. This report also includes the suggestion about adequate requirement value for sub-size Charpy in austenitic weld metal through the experimental evaluation of J-Cv relationship.