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Provision of weigh-bridges.
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19.—(1) Every council charged with the maintenance of a road may erect at such places on or adjacent to such road as it thinks proper and shall, when required by the Minister so to do, erect at such places on or adjacent to such roads as the Minister directs, machines (in this Act referred to as weigh-bridges) of the prescribed dimensions, power, design, and construction for the weighing of vehicles.
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(4) All expenses incurred by a council in the erection or the maintenance and operation of a weigh-bridge under this section shall be defrayed out of the fees charged under this section for weighing vehicles thereon and, if and so far as such fees are not sufficient to defray such expenses, such expenses shall be deemed to be expenses of maintaining the road on or adjacent to which such weigh-bridge is erected and shall be defrayed accordingly.
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