Article 17 Provision of public equipment by district councils

Without prejudice to any functions conferred or imposed by any other enactment, any district council may provide and maintain within its distict for use by the public such weighing or measuring equipment as may appear to the council to be expedient.

Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment, and subject to Article 16, a district council may employ persons to attend to any weighing or measuring by means of equipment provided by that council for use by the public.

Except in the case of a weighing or measuring for which, under any other enactment, the charge falls to be regulated by some other person, a district council by whom any weighing or measuring equipment is provided for use by the public may make such charges for any weighing or measuring by means of that equipment as it may think fit.