New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 43

43 Requirement for public weighbridge licence

(1) A person who makes a weighbridge available as a public weighbridge is guilty of an offence unless the person:

(a) is the holder, or an employee of the holder, of a public weighbridge licence, and

(b) does so in accordance with the conditions of the licence and the requirements of this Act.

Penalty: $20,000.

(2) It is a defence in proceedings against an employee of a licensee in respect of a failure to comply with a condition of a public weighbridge licence if the employee establishes that the licensee failed to make the employee aware of the condition.

(3) The regulations may provide that the use of a weighbridge in a specified manner that would otherwise be considered to be use as a public weighbridge is not to be considered to be use as a public weighbridge for the purposes of this section.