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TRADE MEASUREMENT ADMINISTRATION (CHARGES)
AMENDMENT BILL 1981 (No. 2)
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
Currently, Schedule 1 to the Trade Measurement Administration Act 1989 sets out
the charges that are payable when a measuring instrument is tested and approved under
the Trade Measurement Act 1989 by a Government inspector or a private licensee under
that Act. (This is known as "verification" or "re-verification" when carried out by an
inspector and as "certification" when carried out by a licensee.) The charge in respect of
verification/re-verification is payable by the owner of the instrument to the
administering authority and in respect of certification is payable to the administering
authority by the licensee who carries out the certification.
The object of this Bill is to amend the Act:
(a) to provide that the regulations arc to fix the charges to be paid in respect of
each verification/re-verification of a measuring instrument (instead of those
charges being fixed by the Act); and
(b) to remove the requirement in the Act for the payment of a charge by a licensee
when the licensee certifies a measuring instrument and instead to empower the
making of regulations to require a licensee to pay such a charge and to fix the
amount of the charge.
The Bill repeals the list of charges in Schedule 1 to the Act and also makes
consequential amendments.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on a day to be
appointed by proclamation.
Clause 3 gives effect to the Schedule of amendments (Schedule 1).
Schedule 1 contains the amendments described above.