(1) Where a supplementary licence is issued and the maximum gross weight specified in a distance licence is deemed to be increased to the maximum gross weight specified in the supplementary licence by virtue of section 7 of this Act, the chief executive shall, as soon as practicable after the issue of the supplementary licence, refund or cause to be refunded to the applicant for the supplementary licence a refund calculated in accordance with subsection (2) of this section.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, the refund of a road user charge shall be the amount arrived at by multiplying the distance in kilometres common to both licences by the road user charge per kilometre for the distance licence.
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 April 1988, by section 3 Road User Charges Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 46) by substituting the words “chief executive”
for the word “Commissioner”
.
Subsection (2) was amended, as from 23 November 1979, by section 5(3) Road User Charges Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 65) by substituting the words “distance in kilometres ... per kilometre”
for the words “distance common to both licences by the road user charge rate”
.