National Transport Commission (Model Amendments Act: Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue – Package No. 1) Regulations 2008

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National Transport Commission Act 2003

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F2008L02556

21 July 2008 - 04 March 2016

Table of contents

1. Name
2. Purpose
3. Approval
4. Act being amended by this Act
5. Substitution of sections 6 and 7
6. Relationship with the C & E Act
7. Substitution of section 9
8. Insertion of section 9A
9. Substitution of definition
10. Minor amendment to clause 17 (Who is a consignor)
11. Substitution of definition
12. Minor amendments to clause 21 (Who is an unloader)
13. Insertion of Division 1.5
14. What are reasonable steps
15. Minor amendment to clause 26 (What is fatigue)
16. Amendments concerning duty on parties in the chain of responsibility to prevent driver fatigue
17. Change to wording of duty on employers, prime contractors and operators
18. Minor amendment concerning additional duties on certain parties in the chain of responsibility
19. Standardisation of phrase concerning causation
20. Additional duty on consignors and consignees
21. Duties on loading managers
22. Clarification of meaning of “driving” in relation to work time
23. Counting time, including work and rest time
24. Counting of time from outside the participating zone
25. Defence relating to short rest breaks
26. Qualification of defence for solo drivers relating to split rest breaks
27. AFM hours
28. Insertion of section 52A
29. Changes concerning work diaries
30. Destroyed, lost, stolen or malfunctioning work diaries
31. Change to the way certain matters are to be determined
32. Destroyed, lost, stolen or malfunctioning work diaries
33. Information that record keeper must record
34. Two-up driver may make some entries in fellow driver's work record
35. Issue of written work diaries
36. Approval of electronic work diaries
37. Approval of AFM accreditation hours limits
38. Powers of authorised officers
39. Substitution of section 109
40. Additional function for Fatigue Authorities Panel
41. Insertion of section 114A
42. Removal of inaccurate description
43. Removal of redundant provision
44. Substitution of sections 124 – 126
45. Existing exemptions continue
46. Definitions

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National Transport Commission (Model Amendments Act: Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue – Package No. 1) Regulations 2008

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National Transport Commission (Model Amendments Act: Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue – Package No. 1) Regulations 2008

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