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Motor Vehicles Act 1949
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64 Powers of officers for purposes of Part 5A and Standards
For the purposes of Part 5A and the Standards, an officer may
require the driver of a vehicle:
(a) to stop the vehicle;
(b) to give information concerning the mass of the vehicle and the
load, if any, on that vehicle;
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(c) to state his name and place of abode;
(d) to drive or cause that vehicle to be driven to, and weighed at,
a weighbridge or weighing station situated:
(i) within 30 kilometres of the place where the officer makes
that requirement; or
(ii) within 30 kilometres of any place on the forward journey
planned for that vehicle;
(e) to permit the officer to measure and examine the vehicle, its
wheels, tyres and load;
(f) to permit the officer to weigh:
(i) the load on a tyre;
(ii) the wheel load on a wheel;
(iii) the axle load on an axle; and
(iv) the laden mass,
of the vehicle;
(g) to produce to the officer such books, records, licences,
exemptions under section 59 and other documents, relating to
the registration or operation of the vehicle or the licensing of
the driver, as are in that driver's possession or within his
control, and to permit that officer to record any particulars set
out in such books, records, licences, exemptions under
section 59, and other documents; or
(h) whom the officer, after the vehicle and its load have been
weighed in pursuance of paragraph (d) or (f), considers to
have committed an offence against Part 5A or the Standards,
to take measures to prevent the further commission of that
offence and, after taking such measures, to have that vehicle
and its load weighed at a weighbridge or weighing station
nominated by that officer and within the period specified by
that officer at the time of making that requirement.