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Weights and Measures Act 1987

Miscellaneous provisions

42: Fees

You could also call this:

"Rules about paying for checking weights and measures"

The Governor-General can make rules about how much you need to pay for certain things. These include asking to become an accredited person, changing your accreditation letter, renewing your accreditation letter, and getting approval for weights, measures, and weighing or measuring tools.

An Inspector can charge you money for stamping weights, measures, or weighing or measuring tools. They can also charge for giving you a certificate that says these things are accurate.

The Inspector can't charge too much. They should only charge a fair amount based on how long it took and what materials they used to check your weights, measures, or tools.

If you don't pay these fees, the government can take you to court to get the money.

The rules about these fees are a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they need to be published in a special way, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions

42Fees

  1. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations prescribing the amounts of the fees to be paid in respect of the following matters, or prescribing the method by which any such fee is to be assessed:

  2. applications for accreditation as an accredited person:
    1. applications for the amendment of letters of accreditation:
      1. applications for the renewal of letters of accreditation:
        1. applications for approval, by the Secretary, of weights, measures, and weighing or measuring instruments pursuant to regulations made under section 41(h).

          1. Without limiting the power of an Inspector to charge a fee in any other circumstances, an Inspector may charge a fee in respect of—

          2. the stamping of any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument:
            1. the issuing of a certificate of accuracy in respect of any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument.

              1. Any fee charged pursuant to subsection (2) shall not exceed such amount as may be reasonable, having regard to the time spent, and the materials and equipment used, in examining and testing the weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument for the purpose of determining whether it should be stamped or, as the case may be, whether a certificate of accuracy should be issued.

              2. Every fee imposed pursuant to subsection (1), and every fee charged pursuant to subsection (2), shall be recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the Crown.

              3. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

              Notes
              • Section 42: substituted, on , by section 20 of the Weights and Measures Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 9).
              • Section 42(5): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).