Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) (Amendment) Act, 1960
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Appointed weighbridges. |
4.—(1) (a) A local authority may declare any weighbridge (whether maintained by them or not and whether within or outside their functional area) to be an appointed weighbridge for the purposes of section 3 of this Act. | |
(b) Any such declaration may be revoked by a subsequent declaration made by the same local authority. | ||
(c) Where a local authority make a declaration under this subsection, they shall give such public notice of the making of the declaration as the Minister for Local Government specifies by regulations. | ||
(2) Where a weighing is, consequent upon a requirement under section 3 of this Act, carried out on an appointed weighbridge maintained by a local authority, no fee shall be charged for the weighing. | ||
(3) Where a weighing is, consequent upon a requirement under section 3 of this Act, carried out on an appointed weighbridge not maintained by a local authority, the fee for the weighing shall be recouped to the person paying it by— | ||
(a) in case the weighbridge was declared to be an appointed weighbridge by one local authority only—that authority, and | ||
(b) in any other case—by such one of the local authorities by whom the weighbridge was declared to be an appointed weighbridge as may be agreed upon between those authorities or, in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Minister for Local Government. | ||
(4) In this section “local authority” means the council of a county or the corporation of a county borough. |