(1) The Minister may by order make regulations for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say: -
(a) prescribing the maximum weight unladen of locomotives;
(b) prescribing the maximum weight unladen of vehicles drawn by mechanically propelled vehicles;
(c) prescribing the maximum weight laden of mechanically propelled vehicles and of vehicles drawn by mechanically propelled vehicles;
(d) prescribing the maximum weight to be transmitted to the ground or any specified area of the ground by any part of a mechanically propelled vehicle or of a vehicle drawn by a mechanically propelled vehicle;
(e) prescribing the manner in which and the conditions under which any particular weights prescribed by the regulations are to be ascertained.
(2) Different regulations may be made under this section in respect of different places or areas and in respect of different classes of vehicles.