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National Transport Commission (Model Act on Heavy Vehicle Speeding Compliance) Regulations 2008

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Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts

This item is authorised by the following title:

National Transport Commission Act 2003

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F2016C00503 C01

05 March 2016

Table of contents

1 Name of Regulations
2 Commencement
3 Model legislation
Contents TOC \o "1-9" Part 1—Preliminary matters PAGEREF _Toc449962839 \h 5 Division 1—Introductory matters PAGEREF _Toc449962840 \h 5 1. Name PAGEREF _Toc449962841 \h 5 2. Approval PAGEREF _Toc449962842 \h 5 3. Purpose and outline PAGEREF _Toc449962843 \h 5 Division 2—Interpretative provisions PAGEREF _Toc449962844 \h 6 4. Definitions PAGEREF _Toc449962845 \h 6 5. Examples PAGEREF _Toc449962846 \h 7 6. Notes PAGEREF _Toc449962847 \h 7 7. Gender PAGEREF _Toc449962848 \h 7 8. This Act to be read with Compliance and Enforcement Act PAGEREF _Toc449962849 \h 7 9. Relationship of this Act to other laws PAGEREF _Toc449962850 \h 8 10. Crown to be bound PAGEREF _Toc449962851 \h 8 Division 3—Causation PAGEREF _Toc449962852 \h 9 11. Intention irrelevant in determining causation PAGEREF _Toc449962853 \h 9 12. Cause includes “contribute to causing” and “encourage” PAGEREF _Toc449962854 \h 9 13. Objective reasonableness test to be used in determining causation PAGEREF _Toc449962855 \h 9 Part 2—Specific Duties and Offences PAGEREF _Toc449962856 \h 10 Division 1—Duties on employers, prime contractors and operators PAGEREF _Toc449962857 \h 10 14. Who is an employer? PAGEREF _Toc449962858 \h 10 15. Who is a prime contractor? PAGEREF _Toc449962859 \h 10 16. Who is an operator? PAGEREF _Toc449962860 \h 10 17. Duty concerning business practices PAGEREF _Toc449962861 \h 10 18. Duty to ensure offences are not committed PAGEREF _Toc449962862 \h 12 Division 2—Duties on schedulers PAGEREF _Toc449962863 \h 14 19. Who is a scheduler ? PAGEREF _Toc449962864 \h 14 20. Duty concerning driver’s schedule PAGEREF _Toc449962865 \h 14 Division 3—Duties on loading managers PAGEREF _Toc449962866 \h 16 21. Who is a loading manager? PAGEREF _Toc449962867 \h 16 22. Duty on loading managers PAGEREF _Toc449962868 \h 16 Division 4—Duties on certain consignors and consignees PAGEREF _Toc449962869 \h 17 23. Consignors to whom this Division applies PAGEREF _Toc449962870 \h 17 24. Consignees to whom this Division applies PAGEREF _Toc449962871 \h 17 25. Duties on consignors and consignees PAGEREF _Toc449962872 \h 17 Division 5—Certain requests, contracts etc prohibited PAGEREF _Toc449962873 \h 19 26. Certain requests etc prohibited PAGEREF _Toc449962874 \h 19 27. Certain contracts etc prohibited PAGEREF _Toc449962875 \h 19 28. Who are the parties in the chain of responsibility? PAGEREF _Toc449962876 \h 19 Part 3—Compliance and enforcement provisions PAGEREF _Toc449962877 \h 21 Division 1—Reasonable steps PAGEREF _Toc449962878 \h 21 29. One method of taking reasonable steps PAGEREF _Toc449962879 \h 21 30. Additional matters concerning taking reasonable steps PAGEREF _Toc449962880 \h 21 Division 2—Evidential matters PAGEREF _Toc449962881 \h 23 31. Deciding what a person ought reasonably to have known PAGEREF _Toc449962882 \h 23 32. Commission of speeding offence is irrelevant to Part 2 prosecutions PAGEREF _Toc449962883 \h 23 Division 3—Enforcement powers PAGEREF _Toc449962884 \h 24 33. General enforcement powers PAGEREF _Toc449962885 \h 24 Division 4—Penalties PAGEREF _Toc449962886 \h 25 34. Penalties PAGEREF _Toc449962887 \h 25 35. Provisions relating to first offences and second or subsequent offences PAGEREF _Toc449962888 \h 25 Part 4—Regulations PAGEREF _Toc449962889 \h 27 36. Regulations PAGEREF _Toc449962890 \h 27 Schedule 1—Text of the Model Act on Heavy Vehicle Speeding Compliance