NATIONAL CLASS 2 HEAVY VEHICLE B-DOUBLE AUTHORISATION (NOTICE) 2014

AMENDMENT NOTICE 2016 (No. 1)

Purpose

1.       This Notice amends the National Class 2 Heavy Vehicle B-double Authorisation (Notice) 2014 (No. 2) by replacing Schedule 4 of that Notice with the schedule appended to this Notice.

2.       The purpose of this notice is to exempt a heavy vehicle to which it applies from stated prescribed mass requirements in Schedule 1 of the Heavy Vehicle (Mass, Dimension and Loading) National Regulation.

Authorising Provision

3.       This notice is made under section 119, and section 23 of Schedule 1, of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL).

Commencement

4.       This notice commences on the date that it is published.

Expiry

5.       This notice expires when the National Class 2 Heavy Vehicle B-double Authorisation (Notice) 2014 (No. 2) expires, is cancelled or otherwise amended.

Amendment

6.       This Notice amends the National Class 2 Heavy Vehicle B-double Authorisation (Notice) 2014 (No. 2) by omitting the Tasmanian Schedule 4 of that Notice and replacing it with the Schedule of this Notice.

Note –

The effect of section 6 is to completely replace the current Tasmanian Schedule to correct erroneously omitted concessions that applied prior to the commencement of the HVNL.

Dated: 19 July 2016

Peter Caprioli

Director Access

National Heavy Vehicle Regulator

Appendix 1: Inserted Schedule 4 Tasmania.

SCHEDULE 4- TASMANIA

Definitions:-

1)      In this Schedule—

‘aggregate axle load’ means the mass that is the sum of the mass limits stated in Table 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 of the Heavy Vehicle (Mass, Dimension and Loading) National Regulation in relation to each of the axle groups and single axles of the B-double.

‘approval plate’ means a decal, label or plate, issued with the approval of an authority

that is responsible for the administration of a corresponding law, that–

a)      certifies that a prime mover is fitted with a Front Underrun Protection Device; and

b)      is fitted in such a way that it cannot be removed without being damaged or destroyed.

‘Forestry Safety Code’ means the means the Forest Safety Code (Tasmania) 2007, as amended from time to time, produced by the Safety Standards Committee of the Tasmanian Forest Industries Training Board Inc. and approved under section 22 of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (Tas) and recognised by section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas).

Stated areas or routes

2)      A B-double that is not longer than 21m, and that is not fitted with more than seven axles, and that has a mass not more than the lower or lowest of the aggregate axle load or 50t (or 50.5t for a complying steer axle vehicle) may use all roads in Tasmania.

3)      A B-double that is not longer than 21.3m with a rear trailer that has a rear load restraining guard that complies with the Forestry Safety Code, and that is not fitted with more than seven axles, and that has a mass not more than the lower or lowest of the aggregate axle load or 50t (or 50.5t for a complying steer axle vehicle) may use all roads in Tasmania.

4)      A B-double that is not more than 26m long may use the areas or routes as listed in the Tasmanian Approved B-double Route Network set out in http://www.transport.tas.gov.au/vehicles/heavy_vehicles/access/pages/bdouble_route_network.

Stated hours of stated days

5)      A B-double that is authorised to use the routes specified in clauses 2 and 3 may use the stated routes at any time of the day.

6)      A B-double that is authorised to use the routes specified in clause 4 must do so in accordance with any restrictions on the hours and days of operation specified for a road in the ‘comments and restrictions’ column in the Tasmanian Approved B-double Route Network.

Conditions

7)      A B-double that is authorised to use the routes specified in clause 4 must comply with the conditions about the operation of the heavy vehicle specified for a road in the ‘comments and restrictions’ column in the Tasmanian Approved B-double Route Network.

8)      The prime mover of a B-double that is longer than 25m that is fitted with a bullbar, roo bar, nudge-bar, cowcatcher or other such protrusion at the front of the vehicle, must have the bullbar, roo bar, nudge-bar, cowcatcher or other such protrusion permanently fitted with a clearly legible and conspicuously displayed approval plate.