New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 83

83 Existing licensed public weighbridges

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement of the Trade Measurement Legislation Amendment Act 2007 , a licensee operates more than one public weighbridge under a public weighbridge licence.

(2) On the commencement:

(a) each public weighbridge is taken to be licensed under a separate public weighbridge licence, and

(b) a separate periodic licence fee is not payable because of paragraph (a) until the day the periodic licence fee is payable under section 52 after the commencement.

(3) Also, if, after the commencement:

(a) a licensee for a public weighbridge that is taken under subsection (2) (a) to be licensed under a separate public weighbridge licence pays a separate periodic licence fee for the public weighbridge, and

(b) the administering authority decides the weighbridge is still suitable for use as a public weighbridge,

the licensing authority must issue to the licensee a separate public weighbridge licence for the weighbridge with a weighbridge suitability statement on it in force for the period for which the fee payable in relation to the statement has been paid.