NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 18PT Offence--making a weighbridge available as a public weighbridge when not licensed etc.

NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 18PT

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person makes a weighbridge available as a public weighbridge; and

  (b)   the person is not:

  (i)   a public weighbridge licensee; or

  (ii)   an employee of a public weighbridge licensee; or

  (iii)   a person who has contracted with a public weighbridge licensee to operate the weighbridge as a public weighbridge; or

  (iv)   an employee of a person mentioned in subparagraph   (iii).

Penalty:   30 penalty units.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability, see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .