Another Weights and Measures Bill
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ASYSTEM of checks on certain goods carried by road vehicles is proposed in the Weights and Measures (No: 2) .Bill, which has been brought out as a revised substitute for the measure which failed to .become 'law during this
Parliamentary session. • •
The new Bill says that where goods are being carried for reward or where the whole of a: vehicle's load is being carried:for, or for' delivery after; Sale to the -same persdn—an insbector can order the goods to -be unloaded so that they can be checked against the-relevant documents. He can also. require the person insharge of the Vehicle to have it cheekWeighed, though' in, no circumstances will .anrinspeCtor be able' td• stop a vehiele:bn
the .highway. .•• . • A similar power to 'demand.' that a
-vehicle should.' check-weighed is suggested •,for-I the buyer or seller of goods Which are heirig sold by weight to A _single buyer and which take -Up the
whole of the.vehiele's. load. " • Special .provision for 'regulating the carriage byroad of sand and ballasf arid solid fuel appears in the Measure, which' will come before 'Parliament in • the •nekt session.'