(1) For the purposes
of determining the mass of a vehicle—
(a) a
weighbridge—
(i)
must have a steel or concrete platform or, if a wooden
platform, must be verified, re-verified or certified, and marked with an
inspector's mark or licensee's mark, in accordance with the
National Measurement Act 1960 of the Commonwealth; and
(ii)
must be so situated as to have sufficient space for
vehicles usually weighed on the weighbridge to be driven or drawn on and off
without turning on the platform; and
(iii)
must have a level surface so that no point on the surface
on which the mass to be measured bears is more than 15 millimetres above or
below any other point on that surface; and
(iv)
must operate within the appropriate limits of error for
that type of weighbridge that may be tolerated under the National Measurement
Act 1960 of the Commonwealth; and
(b) in
order to determine the mass of a vehicle with or without its load and the mass
carried on any 2 or more axles of a vehicle on a weighbridge, it is not
necessary to measure the mass carried on all the relevant axles
simultaneously, but the mass may be determined by aggregating the measurements
of mass taken separately in relation to the axles in question, provided that
in determining the mass carried on a vehicle having an axle group or axle
groups, the axles within each group must be measured as a whole; and
(c) when
an approved instrument for determining mass is used in order to determine the
mass of a vehicle with or without its load and the mass carried on any 2 or
more axles of a vehicle, the mass may be determined by aggregating the
measurements of mass taken simultaneously or separately in relation to the
axles in question, provided that, in determining the mass carried on
individual axles of an axle group, all of the axles within that group must be
measured simultaneously and must, as far as possible in the circumstances, be
in the same plane.
(2) In this
regulation—
"approved instrument for determining mass" means an instrument for determining
mass approved in writing by the Minister for the purposes of this regulation.