Clause 40

Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and of any rules made thereunder, it shall be lawful for any police officer authorized in writing in that behalf by the Deputy Commissioner of Police to require the person in charge of any motor vehicle to allow the motor vehicle or any trailer drawn thereby to be weighed either laden or unladen and the weight transmitted to the road by any part of the motor vehicle or trailer laden or unladen in contact with the road to be tested and for that purpose forthwith to proceed to a weighbridge or other machine for weighing vehicles, and if any person in charge of a motor vehicle refuses or neglects to comply with any such requirement, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.

Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and of any rules made thereunder, it shall be lawful for any police officer so authorized to require the person in charge of the motor vehicle to unload the motor vehicle or trailer for the purpose of being weighed unladen.

Where a motor vehicle or trailer is weighed under this section, a certificate of weight shall be given to the person in charge of the motor vehicle by the officer who has required the vehicle to be weighed. [38]