New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRADE MEASUREMENT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1989 - SECT 13

13 Other fees and charges may be prescribed

(1) Regulations may be made for and with respect to the imposition, collection and recovery of fees and charges for the purposes of the Principal Act and this Act including:

(a) application fees, and

(b) licence fees, and

(c) charges for the examination of public weighbridges for suitability, and

(ca) fees payable for providing weighbridge suitability statements or duplicates of weighbridge suitability statements, and

(d) fees payable for the issue of amended licences or certificates and for the issue of duplicate licences and certificates, and

(e) charges payable where an inspector keeps an appointment to examine or test a measuring instrument but is unable to carry out the examination or testing because the measuring instrument is unavailable or inaccessible or access to it is unreasonably refused, and

(f) charges to re-imburse costs incurred in connection with the examination and testing of a measuring instrument under the Principal Act, and

(g) charges payable by a person where the use of specified labour or equipment provided by the Superintendent is necessary for the exercise of the functions of an inspector, and

(h) charges payable for the use by a person of specified equipment provided by the Superintendent.

(2) The regulations may provide for a charge under subsection (1) (c)-(h) to be calculated on a time basis.

(3) The regulations may provide for the fee payable under section 52 (Periodic licence fee) of the Principal Act for a licence to be a specified amount or an amount calculated in a specified manner.

(4) For the purposes of this section, it does not matter whether the fee prescribed for a public weighbridge licence and a weighbridge suitability statement is a combined fee for the same period.