New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 27

27 Presumptions concerning mass of vehicles

(1) For the purpose of:

(a) determining the consideration in respect of a transaction, or

(b) determining the amount payable as a tax, rate, toll, duty, charge or other impost (however described),

it shall be conclusively presumed that:

(c) the mass of a vehicle determined by direct measurement of the mass of the vehicle is more accurate than the mass determined by end-and-end measurement of that mass, and

(d) the mass of a railway vehicle determined when the vehicle is stationary is more accurate than the mass determined when the vehicle is in motion.

(2) In this section, "end-and-end measurement" means the determination of a measurement relating to a vehicle (whether loaded or not) by adding together separate measurements of the mass supported singly or in combination by the different axles of the vehicle, those separate measurements having been determined by separate operations of a weighbridge.