New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1989 - SECT 12

12 Regulations prescribing charges

(1) For the purpose of the prescription of charges under sections 10 and 11 (and without limiting those sections), the regulations may make provision for or with respect to any of the following:

(a) prescribing different charges for different types or classes of measuring instruments,

(b) prescribing different charges depending on the nature and circumstances of verification, re-verification or certification,

(c) prescribing the periods for which and the times by which the charges must be paid,

(d) requiring the submission by the persons liable to pay charges of returns as to the number and nature of measuring instruments verified, re-verified or certified during a specified period,

(e) requiring any such return to be verified by statutory declaration,

(f) providing for the reduction of, waiver of or exemption from payment of the prescribed charges in specified circumstances.

(2) Regulations made for the purposes of section 11 need not require the payment of a charge for each and every certification of a measuring instrument and may, for example, provide that no charge, or a reduced charge, is payable in respect of any subsequent certification of the same measuring instrument during a specified period.

(3) For the purposes of sections 10 and 11 (and the regulations under those sections), the marking of a measuring instrument with an inspector’s mark or a licensee’s mark pursuant to the provisions of the regulations under the Principal Act concerning batch testing is to be regarded as constituting the verification or certification, as appropriate, of the instrument concerned.